Paper Details

Name: G. Mallesha
Country: India

Year: 2026
Volume: Volume No: 13, Issue No: 1, Year: 2026
Page Number: 247-253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20389830

Communities are tactical in a multiplicity of ways towards the stipulation and management of education as well as teaching, learning and enforcement processes. Though, communities play a variety of roles in the enhancement of democratic practice and solidity. This paper discusses how communities can be involved in the promotion and management of education as well as the development of the capacity of communities to assume improved role in handling the whole education environments towards enhanced funding, management and monitoring under democratic settings. Strengthening and better functioning of local administration have become prime concerns of educational reform by establishment of effective local administration in education for several years in many countries including
India. It is now widely recognized that effective local administration considerably impacts on access to education as well as the enrolment, retention and learning experiences of children in school. Community participation in education in India is not a new concept. Community has always been thought as an integral part of the educational set up. Although the initially years of Post-independence India marked the centralization of education when the efficiency of the local bodies in applying their power properly was criticized (Wankhede and Sengupta: 2005) and a notion prevailed that the whole thing belonged to the government and not the community, the idea could not prolong for long as centralization failed to affect a change in the quality of school education. (Noronha: 2003). Policymakers, educators, and others involved in education are seeking ways to utilize limited resources efficiently and effectively in order to identify and solve problems in the education sector and to provide excellence education for children. Their efforts have contributed to realizing the significance and benefits of community participation in education, and have recognized community participation as one of the strategies to improve educational access and quality.