Enrichment of indigenous pre-primary education of Bangladesh through HCI

Abstract

There are some indigenous peoples currently residing in Bangladesh. Most of them are in the hilly area in the southeast part of the country. These areas of Bangladesh are tough to reach. Even though modern technology such as electricity reached there, the lack of educational institutions hampers the development of these peoples. Another issue is that as modern technology touches indigenous peoples, they tend to forget the unique culture they are known for. In this paper, we are trying to use Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to find a way to develop the pre-primary education system of indigenous peoples. We interviewed and surveyed many people from all life paths to find out how technological advancements like internet and websites can impact pre-primary education using the human factor of HCI. In this paper we try to establish a educational web site named IPE (Indigenous Pre-Primary Education) where there will be Indigenous language contents with supplementary Bengali contents to guide the students and teachers to help develop the indigenous pre-primary education scene. All of the work is done keeping in mind that the unique culture of indigenous people must be intact.