Education and Schooling

Lesson 2
E- MODULE FOR THE TRAINING PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS UNDER R. A. NO. 10612

Module No. e-Educ 1

Module Title Training Module on Foundations of Education
Lesson No. 2
Lesson Title Education and Schooling
The learners should be able to:
• demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the nature of the
Intended different educational and teaching contexts;
Learning • analyze significant educational developments that influence
Outcomes certain educational practice; and
• interpret teaching and learning situations in the light of the
different foundations of education.
This module will engage you in the exploration of the different social
institutions as they influence or socialize our young people. Later in
Description of the discussion, you will critically analyze the various social functions
the Lesson of an educational system and their interconnections. At the end
you will be asked to plan a project for stakeholder involvement
designed to uphold the quality of education.
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• Critically analyze the role of social institutions in the socialization
process of young people;
Targets/
Objectives • Explore the interconnection of the social institutions in relation to
the education process; and
• Plan a project proposal on stakeholders’ involvement for quality
education.
LESSON PROPER
Concept Mapping. As teacher, observe your school as a social
institution and reflect on the systems, processes, and agents of
education that influence it. Access the following links and read the
articles thoroughly. Focus on the functions of social institutions in
completing the online concept map. You have 90 minutes to finish
the task.
Sociological Perspectives on Education, Sociology: Understanding
and Changing the Social World. Retrieved from http://open.lib.
umn.edu/sociology/chapter/16-2-sociological-perspectives-on-
Activity education/
Pârgaru, Ion, Rodica Gherghina, Ioana Duca. The Role of Education
in the Knowledge Based Society During the Economic Crisis. Annales
Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica, 11(2), 2009. Retrieved
from http://www.oeconomica.uab.ro/upload/lucrari/1120092/04.
pdf
Burchi, Francesco. Identifying the Role of Education in Socio-
Economic Development. International Conference on Human and
Economic Resources, Izmir, 2006. Retrieved from https://www.die-
gdi.de/uploads/media/Burchi_Intern.Conf.pdf

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 CrashCourse (Jan. 15, 2018). Education in Society: Crash Course
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Activity

Agents of
Education

Provide a brief synthesis of your concept map and discuss your

output integrating the following items:
a. your school as a social institution
b. concepts and ideas presented in the links provided
Completing this online concept map will take approximately
90 minutes.
Reflect on the activity you have done. Answer the following
questions within 30 minutes.
Guide Questions
1. What are your justifications for asserting that these actors,
processes, or institutions are related to education?
Analysis 2. What are the contributions of these actors, processes, or institutions
to improve our education system?
3. Are the actors or processes interconnected?
Revise your concept map to include a more conclusive view of
the agents of education based on your responses to the guide
questions.

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 The school is the major social institution for providing the avenue
for our young people to learn the necessary skills, values and
knowledge that they need for them to be productive members of
society. Aside from the school, other institutions like the church, the
state, mass media, family, and our very own peer groups influence
our educational institutions.
The school serves as an instrument of socialization, social integration,
social placement, and cultural innovation.
Defining Socialization and Education
Socialization is a process of preparing our young people to become
proficient and well-adjusted members in society. Education happens
in the society and it is a social fact. By social fact, Durkheim (1982)
means facts, concepts, and expectations that come not from
individual responses and preferences, but from the social community
which socializes each of its members. Durkheim (1956) pointed out
that “... it is society as a whole and each particular social milieu that
determine the ideal that education realizes. Society can survive only
if there exists among its members a sufficient degree of homogeneity;
education perpetuates and reinforces this homogeneity by fixing in
the child, from the beginning, the essential similarities that collective
life demands. But on the other hand, without a certain diversity all
cooperation would be impossible; education assures the persistence
of this necessary diversity by being itself diversified and specialized.”
(p. 70)
Agents of Socialization
Socialization takes place in the interactions that occur in a particular
Activity group. The first socializing agent for a new born child is the family
because it is the family that provides the needs of the child. There
are many other agents like the school, peer groups, mass media,
government, and religion.
Graphic Organizer
Make a graphic organizer to synthesize the contributions of the
different social institutions to the education or learning of our
students. You may use this petal framework to present your ideas.
You may use Creatly.com to create your online graphic organizer.
Provide a brief explanation for your graphic organizer. Revisit the
reading material to accomplish this task for about 30 minutes.
Now that you have a clear view of the roles of social institutions in
an educational system, collaborate and discuss with a partner to
identify school policies that are basically influenced by the different
institutions noted in this module. Use the matrix below.
Graphic Organizer
Make a graphic organizer to synthesize the contributions of the
different social institutions to the education or learning of our
students. You may use this petal framework to present your ideas.
You may use Creatly.com to create your online graphic organizer.
Provide a brief explanation for your graphic organizer. Revisit the
reading material to accomplish this task for about 30 minutes.
Now that you have a clear view of the roles of social institutions in
an educational system, collaborate and discuss with a partner to
identify school policies that are basically influenced by the different
institutions noted in this module. Use the matrix below.

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Guide Questions
1. How relevant are the school policies in addressing the problems
of our educational system?
2. Based on your own personal observations, what policy
recommendations would you push for if you were a) political leader;
b) religious leader; c) media practitioner; and d) economist?

Social Functions of Education

The school has various social functions that reciprocally help other
agencies of education. Think of the latent and manifest functions of
education. Latent functions are the hidden, covert, and unintended
consequences of undergoing educational experience. For example,
having a peer relationship or group is a latent function of education.
On the other hand, manifest functions are the obvious, overt, and
intended consequences of education, an example of which is the
transmission of knowledge.
Symbol for Education Functions
Choose two (2) of the social functions of education. Think of a symbol
or draw an image to represent the roles of the school. Provide a
brief explanation of your symbol.
1. School as an agent of socialization
2. School as an agent of social integration
3. School as an agent of social placement
4. School as an agent of cultural innovation
Social Functions of Education
The school has various social functions that reciprocally help other
agencies of education. Think of the latent and manifest functions of
education. Latent functions are the hidden, covert, and unintended
consequences of undergoing educational experience. For example,
having a peer relationship or group is a latent function of education.
On the other hand, manifest functions are the obvious, overt, and
intended consequences of education, an example of which is the
transmission of knowledge.
Symbol for Education Functions
Choose two (2) of the social functions of education. Think of a symbol
or draw an image to represent the roles of the school. Provide a
brief explanation of your symbol.
1. School as an agent of socialization
2. School as an agent of social integration
3. School as an agent of social placement
4. School as an agent of cultural innovation

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 Using Google Form, choose at least two stakeholders in education
and conduct a survey on the contributions of these sectors to
improve the quality of education.
Based on the survey you have done, write a proposal for an activity
to be conducted by the stakeholders you have chosen. This activity
should help realize the “ideal” school you have in mind. The proposal
should reflect the social functions of the school that caters to your
chosen stakeholders. Present your proposal creatively. You may use
PowToon (access https://www.powtoon.com/home/?) to create
your presentation. You have 60 minutes to do this activity.
The project proposal for stakeholder involvement shall be evaluated
based on this rubric: https://ed.fnal.gov/help/Relativity/student/
endoyrub/proprub.html

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