Education and the

Society
Introduction:

a. Reasons why go to school

b. Graduation speech
c. Davids book
- shut-up syndrome
- learned inattention
- schools of resentment
- schools of resentment
Freire
a. Acquiring/consuming new knowledge but
not creating
b. Education is shape by society to benefit
those in power
c. False consciousness
d. Politics and education
 Education as seen in different
perspectives
Formal Education - education with
hierarchical structure and chronological
succession.
Informal Education a life long process
wherein a person acquires knowledge
through experiences.
Nonformal Education educational
activities organized outside the school.
 Goals and Functions of Education
Socialization Political and social
Cultural transmission integration
Selection and Selecting talent
allocation to adult Teaching skills
position Innovations
Knowledge
generation
 Latent Functions

Child care
Postponing job hunting
Social control
Screening and allocation
Stimulation of social change
 The Meaning of Education in the
Society
To help perpetuate the societys culture
To facilitate the process of social change
They maintain existing social structures
They integrate diverse social elements
They adapt structural element to change
They attain the goal of society
 Educational Institutions
Family
Peer Group
Mass Media
Work Place
Church
Street gang
Social Interest Group
Social Service Agencies
Social Class
 Formal Education and Teaching
As times pass by,
the systems
education Principal

changed, there
have been a need Asst. Principal and
Administrative asst.

for formalization
and specialization Teachers
Students Counselors
 Emerging Functions of the
School
Personal and social Sex and family education
problem solving Increased functional
Social competence in the literacy
secondary society Development of
Diffusion of new cosmopolitan attitudes
knowledge Existential creativity
Providing equality of
opportunity for social
position
 Effects of Schooling on Individuals
Knowledge and attitudes
Getting a job
Job performance
Education and income
Education and mobility
 Education and Social mobility in
Industrial Society

Sponsored mobility pattern

Contest mobility

Tournament selection
 Socialization and Educational
Career
Illustration of stages in nursing profession
- Learning the profession
- Identifying with professional coworkers
- Taking on the values of profession
 Education in the Philippines
- Conquistadores brought education in the Philippines
during Spanish invasion. Schools were put to spread
Christianity
- Many acts and decrees were put up that centers on
education, some of those were;
Educational Decree of 1863
Education Act of 1901
Education Act of 1971
 Main Thrusts of Education
Equity-thrust in democratizing access
to educational opportunities.
Quality- referred to as the thrust on
excellence un education.
Relevance-thrust n efficiency.
 The community school
movement
Aims of the community school
movement:
To meet the needs and provide for the
interests of the people of the community.
To utilize the community resources and
attitudes in its educational programs.
To promote democracy in all activities.
To organize the school curriculum around the
major processes and problems of community
living.
To stimulate the children and adults
toward cooperative projects of
common interests and mutual
concern.
To broaden and deepen experiences,
to liberate intelligence, and to increase
appreciation of social values.
 Education and employment!

Egglesto suggested that work experience

may b provided in a number of ways:
Through its infusion into the whole
curriculum.
Through work experience courses that
involve placements with local
employers.
Through work creation schemes
whereby schools organize to provide
service for themselves and the local
community.
Through work stimulation schemes
whereby a school based enterprise is
established to give individuals the range
of experience associated with the
activities required to produce and sell
goods.
 The school as a distinctive
social system
Formal structure- all schools operate under a
formal structure reflected on their organizational
chart.
Informal aspect
Invisible curriculum- the hidden curriculum refers
to the norms and values that are implicitly, but
effectively, taught in schools and that are not
talked about by teachers statements of ends or
goals.