Educational Aspiration of Farm Labourers about their Children

Aspiration can be defined as a level of possible goals set by an individual. Aspiration in short is the expected level of achievement of the individual. "Educational aspiration of farm laboures is any desire, expectation of the laboures toward their children education and about the aims with they are taking the education.The study was undertaken in the year 2012-13. A sample of 120 farm labourers selected from the agricultural institutes working under Dr.P.D.K.V., Akola and KVK of Amravati district of Maharashtra. Majority of farm labourers had medium level of educational aspiration. Among the selected characteristics, it was observed that the characteristics namely, education, annual income, sources of information, knowledge and cosmopolitness, family size had significant relationship with educational aspiration of the respondents. However, the relationship between type of family, age, social participation and their educational aspiration were found non-significant.