Lata PujarShilipa C. Mugali2016-11-112016-11-112011http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/85206A study on “Maternal involvement and attitude towards preschool education” was conducted in Dharwad taluka during 2010-11. Two hundred mothers of preschool children with age range of three to six years, residing in rural (n=100) and urban area (n=100) of Dharwad taluka were selected for the study. Kale (1974) scale on Parent-Child Interaction was used to assess the extent of interaction between mother and children and Venkatesan (2002) scale on Parental Attitude towards Preschool Education was used to assess the maternal attitude towards preschool education. Aggarwal et al. (2005) scale was used to assess the socio economic status of a family. Correlation coefficient and‘t’ test were used for analysing the data. The results of the present investigation revealed that majority of the mothers from rural (75.0%) and urban (56.0%) area had medium level of involvement and 44 percent of mothers from urban and 25 percent mothers from rural area had high level of involvement with their children. The demographic factors such as education, occupation, family income and socio economic status were positively and significantly influenced the maternal involvement with their children. Mothers from both urban and rural (75.0% and 85.0%) area had average attitude towards preschool education and none of mothers from both the locality had unfavourable and highly unfavourable attitude towards preschool education. The demographic factors like age, education and occupation of the mothers, family size, family income and socio economic status were not significantly influenced mothers’ attitude towards preschool education. Maternal involvement with their children and attitude towards preschool education did not vary according to age, gender and ordinal position of the child. Maternal involvement and their attitude towards preschool education was positively and significantly related. Hence as the mother’s involvement with their children increased, their attitude towards preschool education also increased.Thesis