Pride and Shame: Two Icebergs in the Ocean of Indian Education.

Educational Psychology

Achievement is a tool to measure scholarly qualities in education. Performance on exams remains the primary path of upward mobility. Cross-cultural research has suggested that Indian students have different perspective about, task orientation and academic anxiety and perception of success and failure. Many emotions are interweaving the choice of goals Achievement emotions not only influence the academic achievement of student but also determined the cognitive engagement and learning patterns. In India very few researches have done in the area of achievement emotions. This study explored the relationship of Pride and Shame with positive and negative emotions. The sample consisted of 80 Eleventh grade students (40 male and 40 female) from 3 different schools in Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan. There was representation of different castes among both the gender. Achievement emotion were assessed by administering questionnaire during winter session of school. The study revealed that caste and gender are important construct that change the relationship of pride and shame in different domain.

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