Education as a Major Social Institution

Prepared by: Parrado, Charo

Educationin the largest sense is any act or experience

that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another

Purpose of EducationIntellectual Purposes

to teach basic cognitive skills to transmit specific knowledge to help students acquire higher-order thinking skills

Purpose of EducationPolitical Purpose

To inculcate allegiance to the existing political order

To prepare citizens who will participate in the political order

To help assimilate diverse cultural groups into a common political order

To teach children the basic law of society

Purpose of EducationSocial Purpose

To socialize children into various roles, behaviors, and values of the society.

Purpose of EducationEconomic Purpose

- to prepare students for their later occupational roles.

Function of EducationTechnical/ Economic Function

- refers to the contribution of school to the technical or economic development and needs of the individual, the institution, the local community, the society and the international community.

Function of EducationHuman/ Social Function

- refer to the contributions of schools to human development and social relationships at different levels of the society.

Function of EducationPolitical Function

- refer to the contribution of schools to the political development at different levels of society.

Function of EducationCultural Functions

- refers to the contribution of schools to the cultural transmission and development at different levels of society.

Function of EducationEducation Function

- refers to the contribution of schools to the development and maintenance of education at the different levels of society.

Manifest and Latent Function of

Education

Manifest Functions the open and intended goals or

consequences of activities within an organization

or institution.

Socialization- students from kindergarten through college schools teach students the student-roles, specific academic subjects, and political socialization.

Social Control- schools are responsible for teaching values. School teach conformity by encouraging young people to be good students, conscientious, future workers and low-abiding citizens.

Transmitting culture

- schools transmit cultural norms and values to each new generation.  It plays, as well, an important process in the assimilation of new immigrants.  Immigrants learn the dominant cultural vales, attitudes, and behaviors so that they can be productive members in their new society

Promoting social and political integration

- education serves the latent function of promoting political and social integration.

Agent of change

- education can stimulate or bring about desired social change.

Latent Functionthe hidden, unstated and sometimes unintended consequences of activities within an organization or institution.

Restricting some activities- in our society there are laws that require children to attend school or complete a primary and secondary education.

• Matchmaking and production of social networks- because school brings together people of similar ages, social class and race, young people often meet future marriage partners and develop social networks that may last for many years

Creation of generation gap

- students may learn information in school that contradicts beliefs held by their parents or their religion

Functions of School as stated by CalderonConservation Function

- the school conserves and preserves through its libraries and other devices recorded accumulated experiences of the past generations.

Instructional function- the main concern of the school is to pass on the accumulated experiences of the past generations to the incoming generations.

Research FunctionThe school conducts research to improve the old ways of doing things or to discover hitherto unknown facts or systems to improve the quality of human life.

Social Service Function- one justification for a particular school to exist is to render some kind of social service in the place where it is located.

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