Influence of Ataraxia on Drop out among Secondary School Children: A Psycho-social Study in Naogaon District

Abstract

Ataraxia is now very important and new kind of modern idea in the education world. After a lengthy investigation Ataraxia institute was inaugurated 2001 in Barcelona. It mission is helping to shed negative feeling and recovery of their inabilities and powerAtaraxia means emotional detachment. Ataraxia comes when students don‟t go to school regularly or when unconscious mind in the class room remains or don't study part by part according to syllabus. It is a kind of mental evasive tendency which keeps the children apart from study but it is hard to be understand outwardly. We have to keep in mind Ataraxia isn't some sub-conscious mental disease, it is still a conscious condition. We can find that all are given emphasis on poverty and illiteracy as the causes of drop out problem. It is really an important cause but we have to keep in mind causes are really of two kinds. One is social and other is psychological. If poverty is social cause, psychological cause is influence of Ataraxia. Ateraxia is one of the main causes of drop out students but most of the teachers and guardians are not aware about the influence of Ataraxia. My research has helpedto clear about the Ataraxia concept. The present study entitled Influence of Ataraxia on Drop out among Secondary School Children: A Psycho-social Study in NaogaonDistrictis an attempt to study the relationshipbetweenschool dropout students and Ataraxia. The study has two main objectives, one is the social side and other is to thepsychological phenomenon. The study is based in both primary and secondary sources of data while analysis is derived mainly on the base of primary data which is collect though a multiple methods and techniques. Two hundred and thirty one drop out students were selected for the entire study using the sampling technique to conduct the research work, interview, observation, and case study methods were applied. The finding of the study willhelp the education planners, policy makers, curriculum

express and administration to chalk out an appropriate, meaningful and realistic policy to present drop out situation. As well as, my research help to know how to ataraxia influence the student on drop out among secondary schools. Despite living in the modern age today, poverty, illiteracy and unemployment etc. are considered to be the main causes of dropping out of the school going student but If we ask a school going drop out student “Why do you stop going to school?” s/he answer‟s that his father is very poor. His father can‟t able bear food and education expenditure. If we think a little bit, he actually does not like school. He blames his father‟s poverty but he avoids his mental inability in unconscious mind. We find two causes here. He is not interested to going to school because of lack of preparation to answer in class but he uses father‟s poverty as the main cause. So, to know the real cause of drop out of school going students, we have to analyses both the psycho-social aspect of the school going drop out student.Due to the influence of ataraxia a huge numbers of students on being drop out at the secondary school in our country.Finally, the researcher strongly recommends awareness development among the students and guardians that may help to protect the drop out problem among secondary school children.