SCHOOLING AND DIFFERENTIAL PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ELITE SCHOOLING SYSTEM AS PROVOKING AGENT OF SOCIAL CLASS SEGREGATION

Abstract

The major objective of the present study was to examine the role of private elite schools in the creation of personality development in posh area of university town Peshawar city Pakistan. A sample size of 248 respondents was selected as per Sekeran criteria primarily by using simple random sampling technique. Dependent variable social class segregation was indexed and cross-tabulated with independent variable personality development through application of chi square test statistics to ascertain their relationship between variables. The study concluded that unchecked private schools systems prevalence in Pakistani society is the tumbling factor of social class segregation at school level. This type of schooling could lead society as dysfunctional at macro and micro level. The government of Pakistan should improve the educational system and polices pertaining to provide equal education system based on equal curriculum and environment for all. As a slogan of Millennium Development Goalto eliminate negative stigmatization of social class segregation with the corroborations of education for all and by providing education at minimum cost to the neglected segments of the society.