Are we Really Providing Quality Education to the Marginalized?

Children are the future of any nation and therefore they should be protected. This can ensure future of a nation. The objective of this paper is to explain the barriers to quality education especially for the children in primary school from backward socio-economic communities. This paper focuses on children living in the slums of Pune, a city in the State of Maharashtra in India. This paper will underscore the significance of quality education for children’s overall growth and well-being. For accomplishing the objective of the study, qualitative unstructured interviews were undertaken. Based on qualitative research, this result shows how these children struggle to get quality education. It demonstrates how their socio-economic background, home environment, social environment and prejudices of teachers hinder and affect educational attainment and overall growth. Conceptual framework of this study is socialization, mobility, exclusion, cultural capital.