DEVELOPING COMFORTABLE LEARNING ZONE FOR TRIBAL STUDENTS IN JHARKHAND THROUGH MULTICULTURAL TEACHING

India is a country of diverse culture where the people of various religions, faiths, castes, tribes, classes, languages etc. live together. Multiculturalism is inherent in Indian society and there is a long history of unity in diversity. Indian classrooms too, delineate tremendous diversity. Similar to the worldview of multicultural formal education, no Indian classroom is monocultural. At some places, like in tribal dominated state Jharkhand, it is a major concern and liberates enough ground to redesign teaching.There is a general misconception that multicultural teaching is the need of minority groups of the classroom. Tribal students are dominant in most of the schools of Jharkhand as far as number is concerned. But even then, many of them are not comfortable to learn equally with others. Multicultural teaching provides comfortable zone of learning for them. Present paper entails about the multicultural teaching with adequate representation of tribes of Jharkhand in content, pedagogy and classroomenvironment. The research carried out to explore the scope of representation to develop multicultural plan and methodology, combined to term as multicultural teaching. The multicultural lesson plan and certain multicultural interventions has been developed and compared with conventional teaching for the required frame of reference.