Course instructor

Amna Farooq
 Education is the social institution responsible
for the systematic transmission of knowledge,
skills, and cultural values within a formally
organized structure.
 Education is a powerful and influential force in
contemporary societies.
 As a social institution, education imparts
values, beliefs, and knowledge considered
essential to the social reproduction of
individual personalities and entire cultures
(Bourdieu and Passeron, 1990).
 Cultural transmission— the process by which
children and recent immigrants become
acquainted with the dominant cultural
beliefs, values, norms, and accumulated
knowledge of a society— occurs
throughinformal and formal education.
 Informal education
learning that occurs in a
spontaneous, unplanned way.
 Formal education
learning that takes place within
an academic setting such as a school, which has
a planned instructional process and teachers
who convey specific knowledge, skills, and
thinking processes to students.
 Socialization
 Social integration
 Social placement
Schools are responsible for
identifying the most-qualified people to fill the
positions available in society.
 Change and innovation
 change over time, new programs are
introduced to meet societal needs. Innovation in
the form of new knowledge is required in colleges
and universities.
 Schooling occupies thousands of young people
in their teens and twenties who would
otherwise be competing for limited
opportunities in the job market.
 Schools colleges and universities establish
network that serve as valuable career resource
through life.
 Private Vs Public
 Home schooling
 Discipline and violence
 Racial and Ethnic Differences
 Dropping out
 Equalizing Opportunities for Students with
Disabilities
 Explain education in the light of Functional,
Conflict and Symbolic-Interaction’s
perspective.