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Explain The Social Factors That Affect Learning in The Classroom

1. Maintaining an innovative curriculum requires regularly re-examining programs, adapting to changing needs, and gaining input from students, alumni, and industry leaders. 2. Social and cultural factors greatly influence learning through institutions like family and school, as well as broader developments in technology and media like television. 3. Education plays an important role in societies by enabling social change, reconstructing experiences, developing moral and social values, and providing equal opportunities regardless of attributes like gender or ethnicity.

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Explain The Social Factors That Affect Learning in The Classroom

1. Maintaining an innovative curriculum requires regularly re-examining programs, adapting to changing needs, and gaining input from students, alumni, and industry leaders. 2. Social and cultural factors greatly influence learning through institutions like family and school, as well as broader developments in technology and media like television. 3. Education plays an important role in societies by enabling social change, reconstructing experiences, developing moral and social values, and providing equal opportunities regardless of attributes like gender or ethnicity.

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1.

Maintaining an Innovative Vision

The nature and mechanisms of a program will — and must — change over time from
the initial vision. Just as the original idea for a program was based on relevance and
addressing curriculum gaps, the new curriculum needs to adapt to changing needs to
remain effective and relevant. In order to do this, you must:

 Establish benchmarks to re-examine the program on a consistent basis.


 Move beyond the boundaries of academia. Local or national competitions or conferences
are great ways to communicate with leaders about an industry’s needs and future
projections.

 If the school’s mission is revised, it may be time to reassess the program’s alignment
with the school’s new mission and vision.

 Partner with student groups, alumni, advisory boards, and local and national
organizations to encourage enrolment in the program and receive feedback from current
students and alumni about the strengths and weaknesses they perceive within the
program.

 Bring alums in the profession back to the classroom to share as “Teacher for a Day” to
close the academic and professional loop.

Re-envisioning a curriculum to keep it relevant and practical for students should


obviously be a top priority for educators. To truly serve our students and ensure our programs
are preparing tomorrow’s leaders, timely alterations and amendments to a program are
necessary. The process can seem arduous, but with proper research and support from the
department, an idea can become a reality. Before starting a journey like this, need the
unequivocal support of leadership and students is needed. The implementation of new visions
strengthens our goals — and opens worlds of opportunity for our students.

2. Explain the social factors that affect learning in the classroom.

The term ´intellectual tool´ is generally attributed to Vygotsky (Wertsch,


1985). He noted that nature contributes humans with certain elementary mental
functions such as memory, attention and the capacity to make associations based on
contiguity. We use these basic functions to make sense of our environment. One of the
most important tasks to an educational system is to authorize the young with the
intellectual tools of the culture. Children are quite capable of incidental learning based
on the natural mental functions. The acquisition of more advanced forms of the tool
use, however it must be deliberate and must proceed in the full understanding of the
power of the tool, of its generative potential and of the demands made on the user
during the period of learning.

Sociocultural approaches to the process of learning are increasingly being applied by


educationalists. Sociocultural theorists argue that individuals cannot be considered in
isolation from their social and historical context and therefore it is necessary to look at
the society and the developments occurring at a given time.

Two principal agencies, the family and the school powerfully shape children’s learning
experiences. The influence of these two agencies is constrained by the wider social and
cultural systems into which they are embedded. There is great diversity in cultural
backgrounds, social conditions, family arrangements and school organization.

The developments in the computer technology and telecommunication are of


much interest today but the power of television as a tool is presumably the single most
important development of the past thirty years. Studies have show that an average
child spends more time watching television than any other activity except school and
sleep.

3. Discuss the functions of education in society.


Education is essential for every society and individual. It is life itself but not a
preparation for life. Man has various qualities. These qualities of the individual should be
developed for the improvement of the country. So education plays a complementary role
for overall individual, social and national development. It enables an individual to realize
his highest self and goal. The key functions and roles of education towards individual,
society and country are (1) Social change and control: The society is never station.
It is progressive and dynamic. The child lives in society. It is the social environment
where the personality of the child can be developed. The old traditions, customs are
preserved and transmitted with the situations, which are ever changing. We should not
think or believe in the blind beliefs, which are hindrances towards our development.
Education helps to walk with the development of science and technology. (2)
Reconstruction of experiences: Education is life-long process. Life is education and
education is life. Life is full of experiences. One cannot live with his past experiences
which are unable to adjust in the society. So education helps the individual to
reconstruct the experience and adjust with the environment. (3) Development of
social and moral value: Society is always in tension with narrowism. There is no
social or moral value. Now the man is behaving like an animal. Animality can be
changed with moral education. Education teaches the moral value and social value like
co-operation, tolerance, sympathy, fellow feelings, love affection, respect towards elder,
helping the poor and needy persons. (4) Providing opportunity or equality:
Education teaches us to give equal opportunities in all aspects irrespective of caste,
creed, color, sex and religion.

4. Explain the role of philosophy in education specially its relation to school


operation.

The Philosophy of education examines the aims, forms, methods, and results
of acquiring knowledge as both a process and a field of study. As a field of applied
philosophy, it is influenced both by developments within philosophy proper, especially
questions of ethics and epistemology, and by concerns arising from instructional
practice. Philosophical treatments of education date at least as far back as Socrates, but
the field of inquiry only began to be recognized as a formal sub discipline in the
nineteenth century. As an academic subject, it is often taught within a department or
college of education, rather than within a philosophy department. Though the field often
seems to lack the cohesion of other areas of philosophy, it is generally, and perhaps
therefore, more open to new approaches.

A philosophical framework, often called your philosophy of


education, is simply, what you believe about the educational
process, and how you plan to approach your classroom/students
given what you believe. This is a great time for you to think
about how you wish to approach the classroom, your students, the
curriculum, and the entire educational process because you are the
most unaffected by some of the negative sides of teaching as you
will ever be. Developing your philosophy of education will at least
give you a beginning goal. Then, understand, with every single year
of experience, your philosophy will likely change. You will start to
realize what it is really important to you in a classroom, and what
things you are willing to sacrifice. If nothing else, just for you
personally, this will help you keep the big picture separate from the
details. (When you experience a particularly difficult day, you might
forget about the big picture and allow the details to really get you
down. Refocusing depends on your ability to remember your goals.

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