Education is a social institution that transmits skills, knowledge, and values from teachers to learners through both formal classroom settings and informal nonformal education. It serves important manifest functions like socialization and culture transmission, as well as latent functions such as finding life partners and learning to work in groups. While education aims to promote self-actualization and productive citizenship, sociological perspectives see how it can also reproduce social inequalities through mechanisms like tracking. Primary education is recognized as a basic human right that not all children currently access due to issues like lack of local schools, foreign language instruction, and financial hardship.
Education is a social institution that transmits skills, knowledge, and values from teachers to learners through both formal classroom settings and informal nonformal education. It serves important manifest functions like socialization and culture transmission, as well as latent functions such as finding life partners and learning to work in groups. While education aims to promote self-actualization and productive citizenship, sociological perspectives see how it can also reproduce social inequalities through mechanisms like tracking. Primary education is recognized as a basic human right that not all children currently access due to issues like lack of local schools, foreign language instruction, and financial hardship.
Education is a social institution that transmits skills, knowledge, and values from teachers to learners through both formal classroom settings and informal nonformal education. It serves important manifest functions like socialization and culture transmission, as well as latent functions such as finding life partners and learning to work in groups. While education aims to promote self-actualization and productive citizenship, sociological perspectives see how it can also reproduce social inequalities through mechanisms like tracking. Primary education is recognized as a basic human right that not all children currently access due to issues like lack of local schools, foreign language instruction, and financial hardship.
Education is a social institution that transmits skills, knowledge, and values from teachers to learners through both formal classroom settings and informal nonformal education. It serves important manifest functions like socialization and culture transmission, as well as latent functions such as finding life partners and learning to work in groups. While education aims to promote self-actualization and productive citizenship, sociological perspectives see how it can also reproduce social inequalities through mechanisms like tracking. Primary education is recognized as a basic human right that not all children currently access due to issues like lack of local schools, foreign language instruction, and financial hardship.
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EDUCATION
The illiterate of the twenty-first
century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-ALVIN TOFFLER Education
Is the social institution that formally socializes
members of society. It remains a very important support pillar in society. Education also refers to the process through which skills, knowledge, and values are transmitted from the teachers to the learners. Meaning and Importance of Education in Society
Formal and Nonformal
Education
Formal education is based in the classroom and
provided by trained teaching and non teaching personnel. It has an approved curriculum, which includes the course outline, the prescribed number of sessions to finish the lessons and authentic assessments and outputs.
Nonformal education, on the other hand, is an
Sociological Perspectives on Education Manifest and Latent Function of Education One manifest function of education is socialization. As early as preschool and kindergarten, students are initiated into taking on societal roles, like being a daughter, friend and playmate. The French sociologist Emile Durkheim described schools as agents of socialization that prepare children for their future adult economic roles. Another manifest function of education is the transmission of culture, skills, and values.
Latent functions of education refer to the unintended functions
that are brought about by the school environment where you can possibly find a spouse, a business partner, or friends that you can keep for life. Another is ability to work in groups, Using conflict perspective, educational institution are seen as instrument that limit the opportunities of the less powerful in society.
*tracking- this is a formalized sorting system that
identifies the tracks students belong to. ( Ex. High performing student belong to Section 1 while low performing student lumped together all the way to Section 10).
*Also opportunities are limited for those who through
no fault of their own cannot access a more expensive higher education. Goals and Functions of Education in the 21 st Century World Functions Descriptions Reinforced by
Transmission of cultural Communication and honing Family
heritage of knowledge, language, science
Selection of social roles and Provides new experiences Religion
training in such roles and offers alternatives and a wider selection of roles
Integration and Functions as a social control State/ Government/ Religion
mainstreaming of mechanism that brings subcultures and identities recalcitrant members back to the fold
A place where young people Peer/State/Family
Source of social and cultural are enjoined to be creative innovations with others Two most important goals of education for the individual and society are self-actualization and productive citizenry.
Productive citizenry- refers to the idea that a citizen by him/herself must create the environment and opportunities to become productive. It is based on the logic that a productive citizen contributes to the overall betterment of the community
Self actualization-is a notion proposed by Maslow, it refers to the desire for self- fulfillment, namely, to the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially.
Maslow characteristics of a self-actualized people:
Acceptance and Realism- realistic perception of themselves and the world around them. Problem-centering- concerned with solving problems outside of themselves. Spontaneity- spontaneous in their internal thoughts and outward behavior. Autonomy and Solitude- need for independence and privacy, need time to focus on developing their own individual potential Continued Freshness of Appreciation- view world with a continual sense of appreciation, wonder, and awe. Function of Education towards Individual
Development of inborn potentialities
Modifying behavior Holistic development Preparing for the future Developing personality Helping for adjustability
Functions of Education towards Society
Social change and control
Reconstruction of experiences Development of social and moral values Providing opportunity or equality
Functions of Education towards Nation
Inculcation of civic and social responsibility
Training for leadership Nation integration Total national development Primary Education as a Human Right The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to education.
Education is a human right since this is one of the few avenues that can allow social mobility for everyone regardless of their background.
The slogan, Education is a right, not a privilege has been actualized in the Philippines.
Primary education is considered a right of a child it enshrined in the 1987
Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines.
As of 2010, it was reported that 27.82% of Filipino elementary-aged children either
never attend or never complete elementary schooling, usually due to the absence of any school in their area, in the use of a language that is foreign to them for instruction, or financial distress.
In July 2009, the Department of Education moved to overcome the foreign language issue by ordering all elementary schools to move towards initial mother tongue-based
