Locating Community in School Education: A Study of Village Education Committees in Haryana, India.

The present paper is based on a field study, on the role of Community Participation in School Education, conducted in the two villages of Haryana State, India. The study shows that interaction between Village Education Committee, community and certain social economic condition has led to major improvement in educational performance in one village. Special focus is on the relevance of community participation and cooperative action at the ground root level. But in second village, the social conditions, local politics and lack of mobilisation etc. are different factors which have made the concept of community participation a failure. Social exclusion in form of gender discrimination and caste hierarchy remain the common hindrances in both villages in community participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]