IMPACT OF ILLITERACY ON THE LIFESTYLE OF HUMAN BEING
Author: Nazish Muhammad Chuttal Jamali
E-mail: nazishjamali008@gmail.com
Education: B.Ed(Hons) at University:
Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Shaheed Benazir Abad
Village: Hassan Jamali, Nawabshah
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| IMPACT OF ILLITERACY ON THE LIFESTYLE OF HUMAN BEING |
ABSTRACT
The research increase rapidly the impacts of illiteracy on human’s
lifestyle. The illiteracy rates among aged individual peoples are very high in
various countries. Still very sufficient research studies have examined the
illiteracy impacts on human’s lifestyle. The Objectives of this study are: to
study the reasons of illiteracy, to assess the impacts of illiteracy on human’s
lifestyle, to analyze the effects of illiteracy which on human’s lifestyle. The
research design is quantitative in nature and the survey method was used, of
the population of this study is the peoples of district Shaheed Benazir Abad
and the samples were hundred peoples were selected from Taulka Nawabshah,
district Shaheed Benazir Abad whose distributed
in the groups of three such as: completely illiterate, moderately illiterate,
and literate. The researcher used close ended questions to detect the reasons
and impacts of illiteracy on human’s lifestyle. The results of this study indicated
that majority of respondents agreed with all objectives. The conclusion of this
study showed that, illiteracy highly effects on the humans lifestyle such as it
promotes poverty, self-esteem, conflicts, social issues, and family barriers.
It highly impacts on the humans lifestyle such as it traps individuals in
poverty, it increase the unemployment, it diminish the society and peoples
lifestyle, it increase the number of street crimes. The ineffective education
system, not one educational system, poverty, corruption, and ineffective
educational plans are major reasons of low literacy rate. So, the researcher
recommends that government should take active steps towards the literacy
because literacy is powerful weapon which leads the generation’s lifestyle and
states towards the development with the help of literacy. And government should
increase the number of schools and hire the trained and skillful teachers on
the merit basis despite of the corruption which is beneficial for people of
Nawabshah.
Keywords: impacts, illiteracy, humans, lifestyle.
INTRODUCTION
In today’s lot of countries are suffering from illiteracy, particularly advanced countries (Gao, F., & Rao, U. R. 1993). It is clear from the world atlas article 2017 that from the top twenty five illiterate countries Pakistan has the ranked 16 in illiterate countries and its literate ratio is 54.9% and globally South Sudan has declared as lowest literacy ratio that is twenty seven percent peoples literate. And the Togo country has ranked highest literacy ratio that is 60% literate (Philip, P., Hartley, J., Benington, J., & Simmons, M. 2019).The literacy rate used for Pakistan in a 2012 consent was 56%, which containstogether males and females from together rural and urban zones (Fair, C., & Hamza, A. 2016). It is a very low literacy rate, this means that nearly half of the country is uneducated and can contribute very little to financial development because the major contribution in that area is made through education. Literacy supports us to make sense of our lifestyle in this world. From the time we awaken to the time we go to sleep, we are continuously creating meaning of the world around us (Fauville, G., Strang, C.,Cannady, M. A., & Chen, Y. F. 2019).While illiteracy is defined as the incapability to simply read and write the message in every language , incapability to understand the all forms of communication. It is as the incapability in self-confidence and willingness to occupy with language to obtain. Illiteracy can create and interconnect meaning in all sides of daily living (Chireac, S. M., Francis, N., & McClure, J. 2019). It is a main problem all through the world. Anne-Marie Trammell stated that Universal 880 million adults have been considered as illiterate, they don’t have the minimal abilitiesrequired to function in society (Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, 2009). There are many cause which increase the illiteracy ratio day by day such as poverty, due to low income poor families avoid to send their kids in schools and they decided to make them labor as they earn to survive in this world ( Alfred, M. V., & Chlup, D. T. 2009).. Due to learning disabilities or slow learner adults are unable to understand the message of particular subject or topic. Due to abstract or un-conceptual study the learners face difficulties to understand the specific information. In our society gender inequality is major reason which impact on the literacy ratio and it increase the illiterate ratio, our society is male dominant, it gives importance to male instead of female. Mostly families in rural areas send their sons for giving education and make girls bound in four walls of the home. Pakistan has the ineffective educational plans which are reasons to drive the poor education system throughout the country, which results the ineffective academic performance and decreases the merit ratio throughout the country. Due to lack of schools in rural areas families face problems to educate their kids. In the Pakistan corruption is the big and bold reason which impose the highly negative impact in their social life, it also promotes the illiteracy because government hire the corrupt servants for their all organizations, but in schools there are those teachers who just earn the salary from the government and they never regular to their duties, they feel free from their responsibilities and have lack of skills and knowledge in particular field. Students come to school for learning but teachers remain gain absentees from their duty, from them such teachers are untrained, such have lack of knowledge, skills, and abilities to teach the students, these all are because of corruption and government still unaware from its responsibilities which are given by the public of country through the voting to choose their stupid person to drive the country. And government of Pakistan is not serious towards the education and not provide the perfect budget for the education of country, they just fill their pockets instead of spend for education (Roman, S. P. 2004).
The illiteracy promotes lot of effects on humans life style such
as, illiteracy rate increase the drug and alcohol abuse throughout the society,
in society it reduces the ratio of technological advancement, illiterate people
may not vote or not decide to choose the perfect person for voting who drive
the country effectively, this occurs due to lack of awareness and education.
The illiteracy ratio is increasing day by day which may have the capability to
ruined, diminish and weaken the society, it may impact on the individual’s
health, which occurs because of the unawareness of health and reasons to
increase the poor health (Memon 2019), it is also increase the rate of
unemployment in a society, it leads to problems in learning, it increases the
ratio of poverty in society due to unemployment. It increases the rates of
incarceration in society, it leads the poor economy of country, it badly
effects on the humans lifestyle and on society. There are some types of
illiteracy which are included agricultural illiteracy, it is knonw as the
inability to understand the agricultural information and failed in to produce
good crops. Other one is the computer illiteracy or known as technological
illiteracy, it means the inability to understand the basic functions of
computer and lack of knowledge and ability to operate the computer. Computer
illiterate not know that how to use this technology such as unable to turn
on/off the computer or simply unable to gives command or opens the files in
computers. Computer illiterate individuals increasingly the disabling quality
in the current society.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
In this technological era we cannot survive without reading, it is
the vital part of human beings life who needs such skills and abilities for the
improvement on personal and social level. Illiteracy means the incapability of
reading and writing which is harmful for both the society and individuals. The
lifestyle of illiterate individuals are negatively affect and their future is
threatened. Due to illiterate individuals in family who gives less or no
importance towards the education, this effects of illiteracy in the continuous
intergenerational communication. Such families have lowest financial standing
because of lower incomes and low quality jobs. Without literacy skills
individuals have less opportunities for effective jobs, because there is wide
gap between unemployment and employment rates among qualified and totally illiterate
peoples. The low self-esteem leads the generations to the isolation due to
illiteracy, illiteracy reduced the learning for lifelong and professional
development of individuals. Nowadays the illiterate parents who admit the sick
child in hospital and after the doctor’s medication they cannot follow the
instructions of doctor, it leads the child in the problems which pose impacts
on child’s health as well as family also faced the problems, than illiterate
peoples get long time to recover from
the slight illness. Lack of awareness they misuse the services and goods, also
face the problems in understanding the specific details and information’s. If
the state of Pakistan has great ratio of illiterate peoples, than it cannot
dream for the financial development due to lack of adequate, trained and
knowledgeable people. Also people face the problems in understanding the social
issues among societies due to low literacy individuals cannot participate in
community. Especially in rural areas the schools buildings are being
constructed for the adult literacy programs then people will take benefits from
the socially developed standard of living by this approach our nations will successfully
fight to reduce the poverty. As compared to other countries Pakistan has very
low literacy rate. There are many elements act as the causes for the high ratio
of illiterate persons in the country, such as lack of government funds for the
educational organizations. Another
reason is the curriculum of Pakistan is not innovative according to our
requirements which is taught in Pakistan’s educational institutes, it occurs
due to low quality of education in our country. Global wise the ratio of girls
in illiterate population is 61.9% because society do not give importance to the
girl’s education. By damaging and
avoiding the progression of illiteracy and in today’s emerging world it is very
essential for the females that put concentration on the improvement in
self-esteem, for the development of country we should allow the girls to
contribute to their societies. If illiteracy promotes continuously in the
society than it leads to heavy and disastrous consequences through lower incomes,
worse health and higher rates of imprisonment. It encourages the social impact,
the social impacts are profound when a person struggles with reading. The person who is incapable to read, it drive
him/her to have low self-esteem which leads to isolation or feel emotions such
as anxiety, fear, weak and shame. Illiteracy pose negative impacts from
generation to generation. Many children join the school for learning but they
don’t learn to read and write. When we break the cycle of illiteracy and
individuals learn to read and write than they have control on the way to
encourage themselves come out from the poverty, poor health, live the healthy
and effective lifestyle in society. When society break the progression of
poverty and illiteracy than every human will able to stun the boundaries of
prior generations.
OBJECTIVES
1.
To study
the reasons of illiteracy.
2.
To assess
the impacts of illiteracy on humans lifestyle.
3.
To
analyze the effects of illiteracy which on human’s lifestyle
QUESTIONS
1.
What
are the reasons of illiteracy on the people’s lifestyle in Nawabshah?
2.
What
kind of the impacts of illiteracy found on the people lifestyle in Nawabshah?
3.
How
the illiteracy effects on the people lifestyle of Nawabshah?
METHODLOGY
Research Design: This study is quantitative in nature which is designed to
examine, investigate and to study the impacts of illiteracy on human’s
lifestyle.
Population of
the investigation: The population
for this study is included all people of District Shaheed Benazir Abad.
Test Sampling
Procedure: the sampling of this study are
included 100 participants from Taulka Nawabshah, they were distributed in the
groups of three such as: completely illiterate, moderately illiterate, and
literate from Nawabshah, Shaheed Benazir Abad.
Instrumentation/Data
Collection: The survey
questionnaire is planned for respondents of the 100 participants in Nawabshah
to give the data about impacts of illiteracy on human’s lifestyle.
Information Analysis: the information is gathered in the statistical data, the use tables to measure the quantitative data which is given from respondents. In which hypothesis were tested and presented on the following tables:
Table 1: The reasons of illiteracy
|
ITEM NO |
STATEMENT |
Yes |
No |
Total |
|
1 |
The education system of district Shaheed Benazir Abad is very effective |
70 70% |
30 30% |
100 100% |
|
2 |
there is one educational system in the district Shaheed Benazir Abad |
73 73% |
27 27% |
100 100% |
|
3 |
poverty is the major reason of low literacy rate in district Shaheed Benazir Abad |
75 75% |
25 25% |
100 100% |
|
4 |
the increasing
population is the major reason of low literacy rate in district Shaheed Benazir Abad |
20 20% |
80 80% |
100 100% |
|
5 |
Gender Discrimination
is the major reason of low literacy rate in district Shaheed Benazir Abad |
27 27% |
73 73% |
100 100% |
|
6 |
the lack of
awareness is the major reason of low literacy rate in district Shaheed Benazir Abad |
38 38% |
62 62% |
100 100% |
|
7 |
The corruption is the major reason of low
literacy rate in our district Shaheed
Benazir Abad |
85 85% |
15 15% |
100 100% |
|
8 |
the
ineffective educational plans is the major reason of low literacy rate in district Shaheed Benazir Abad |
80 80% |
20 20% |
100 100% |
Findings: from the above data analysis it is clearly showed that the most of the respondents were agreed with the statement 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8. While the few respondents were disagreed with the statement 4, 5, and 6. Findings showed that the ineffective education system, not one educational system, poverty, corruption, and ineffective educational plans are major reasons of low literacy rate. So above results shows that majority of the respondents were agreed on the first objective.
Table2: effect of illiteracy on human’s lifestyle.
|
ITEM NO |
STATEMENT |
Yes |
No |
Total |
|
1 |
Illiteracy increase
the ignorance among the people |
56 56% |
44 44% |
100 100% |
|
2 |
Illiteracy effect
on self-esteem of people |
73 73% |
27 27% |
100 100% |
|
3 |
Illiteracy
increase the poverty among the people of district
Shaheed Benazir Abad |
80 80% |
20 20% |
100 100% |
|
4 |
Illiteracy
develop conflicts among the people of district
Shaheed Benazir Abad |
50 50% |
50 50% |
100 100% |
|
5 |
Illiterate
people face the challenges of social issues |
72 72% |
28 28% |
100 100% |
|
6 |
Illiteracy
increase the family barriers in district Shaheed
Benazir Abad |
27 27% |
73 73% |
100 100% |
Findings: from the above data analysis it is clearly showed that the most of the respondents were agreed with the statement 1, 2, 3, and 5. While the few respondents were disagreed with the statement no 6 and on statement 5 half respondents were agreed while half were disagreed. Findings showed that the illiteracy highly effects on the humans lifestyle such as it promotes poverty, self-esteem, conflicts, social issues, and family barriers. So above results shows that majority of the respondents were agreed on the second objective.
Table3: impacts of illiteracy on human’s lifestyle
|
ITEM NO |
STATEMENT |
Yes |
No |
Total |
|
1 |
Illiteracy traps adults, and their families, in poverty |
85 85% |
15 15% |
100 100% |
|
|
Illiteracy increase the unemployment |
73 73% |
27 27% |
100 100% |
|
2 |
Increased in
illiteracy rates diminish the society and humans lifestyle |
75 75% |
25 25% |
100 100% |
|
3 |
Illiteracy
rates increase drug and alcohol abuse in society |
87 87% |
13 13% |
100 100% |
|
4 |
Illiterate increase the street crimes and thieves , |
56 56% |
44 44% |
100 100% |
Findings: from the above data analysis it is clearly showed that the most of the respondents were agreed with the all statements. Findings showed that the illiteracy highly impacts on the humans lifestyle such as it traps individuals in poverty, it increase the unemployment, it diminish the society and peoples lifestyle, it increase the number of street crimes. So above results shows that majority of the respondents were agreed on the third objective.
CONCLUSION
The significances
of illiteracy are countless and dangerous in a number of respects. Which are disturbing
the illiterate peoples in their daily living standard, every one hazarding
their future regularly, this swear word together socially and economically
impose an important effect on society. Illiteracy in elderly persons were connected
with a higher frequency and increased roughness in human’s way of life.
Illiteracy negatively affected the individual’s lifestyle and derived them to
poverty and unhealthy lifestyle, especially causes related with self-esteem
which leads the individuals to isolation. Therefore, government should wisely
monitor for the existence of rough, unhealthy and depressed lifestyle in
illiterate elderly adults. Illiteracy highly effects on the humans lifestyle
such as it promotes poverty, self-esteem, conflicts, social issues, and family
barriers. It highly impacts on the humans lifestyle such as it traps
individuals in poverty, it increase the unemployment, it diminish the society
and peoples lifestyle, it increase the number of street crimes. The ineffective
education system, not one educational system, poverty, corruption, and
ineffective educational plans are major reasons of low literacy rate.
RECOMENDATIONS
The solutions are that government should create new schools and
special teachers, communicate with parents as the progress of their Childs
should be informed them, government should increase number of primary schools
in rural areas, the school infrastructure should be better, education should be
free and compulsory, we should emphasis on specially female education, we
should encourage intelligent students and hardworking teachers, we should
promote the social campaign against the illiteracy, government should increase
the budget for education instead of spending on their luxury life, in the
villages of Shaheed Benazir Abad Schools should be provided, the schools which
are available in areas should be utilized only for education not for their
cattle’s, crops or ottaq, education should be free and compulsory for all, teachers’
salaries should be increased as they can
join this occupation with interest and love.
The government institutes should be increased in number, the high quality of atmosphere for education should be provided to students as they don’t go towards the private sectors, government should use the high amount of budget for education then the level of literacy in district Shaheed Benazir Abad will soon increase very high
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