EDU 32

TOPIC B &C
 1. THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN SCHOOL AND
SOCIETY
2. SCHOOLS AS SOCIAL
AGENTS AND SOCIAL
CRITICS
 The word 'school' is
WHAT IS A normally associated
SCHOOL? to buildings,
students,
curriculum and instruction, teachers and
administration. Oxford English Dictionary
definition: an institution for educating
children.
Any institution at which instruction is given
in a particular subject. School is a special
institution, created to serve specific social
needs. It, therefore, not only gets aims and
objectives from society but its contents and
methods are also determined in accordance
with the activities, carried on in society, for
which the school
functions
 SOCIETY

A society is a group of people living

according to a shared culture. Society
refers to a group of persons who share a
culture, government, institutions, land,
or a set of social relationships. A
person can belong to several societies
at a time religious, professional, and
social.
The thing that makes a group of people a society is
that they share a common culture
RELATION BETWEEN
SCHOOL & SOCIETY
 Schools shape children's perceptions of the
world, the values, beliefs, and norms of
society are internalized within children so
that they come to think and act like other
members of the society.
Schools helps in building a nation. A good
society is the product of a good school
system and a good school system is the
product of a good society. So there must be
intimate relationships between the school
and the society.
School is the representative
of society:
School are special institution which strives for the
fulfillment of the desires of society.
 School determines its destination in the light of
social objectives.
School is nothing but a reflection of the needs of
society.
Society provides a line of action to education
(School)
School cannot decide its objectives by itself. For
the realization of the objectives of education, the
educational institutions are established in the
society.
FOUNDATION
OF
EDUCATION
 EDUCATION

"Education is something which

makes man self-reliant and
selfless".
(Rigved)
"Nothing is more purifying on earth than wisdom."
(Bhagavad Gita)

Two (2) types of primitive
education:
1. Practical - included the simple
forms
of domestic, vocational,
physical,
moral and military training.
2. Theoretical - covered the
religious,
musical and literary.
Content
TYPES
Physical training - enable the
primitive men to satisfy their need
for food and shelter; spiritual or
ceremonial training. Social
knowledge to learn customs,
taboos and traditions for
harmonious living.
 METHOD
S
Unconscious
imitation
Observation Simple
telling and
demonstration
 EGYPT

is one of the earliest civilizations settled by a Hamitic people who inhabited

the valley of the Nile 20,000 years ago, and
with a recorded history reaching back to the
fifth millennium B.C.
Egyptian culture activity of the Nile. was
dependent on the
A unified system of government was
developed until it was ruled by dynasties of
pharaoh kings.
 ROME
traces her beginnings to
753 B.C. before Christ,
she had expanded into a
massive, imperial
colossus for more than
two and a half centuries, the city
was the queen of the
Mediterranean.
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