EDUC 215- SUPERVISION

OF INSTRUCTION
PRESENTED BY: RODELYN A. BARRUGA
SCHOOL AS
A SOCIAL
SYSTEM
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. Discuss the basic concepts of school as a social system and how they
impact individual learners, classrooms, school and the larger
community.

2. Describe social interactions and their importance in building

harmonious relationships with the wider school community , and

3. Concretize strategies that build relationships with parents / guardians

and the wider community.
The major sociological
perspectives on education fall
nicely into the FUNCTIONAL,
CONFLICT and SYMBOLIC
INTERACTIONIST approaches.

( Ballentine & Hammack, 2012)

FUNCTIONALIS
M
• Education serves several functions for society this include:

(A)Socialization,
(B)Social integration
(C)Social placement,
(D)Social and cultural innovation

• Latent functions include child care, the establishment of peer

relationships, and lowering unemployment by keeping high school
students out of the full- time labor force.

• Problems in the educational institution harm society because all these

functions cannot be completely fulfilled.
CONFLICT
THEORY
Education promotes social inequality through
the use of tracking and standardized testing and
the impact of its “HIDDEN CURRICULUM”

Schools differ widely in their funding and

learning conditions, and this type of inequality
leads to learning disparities that reinforce social
inequality.
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
 BASIC ASSUMPTION:

1. Social systems are open systems 6. Social systems are normative

2. Social systems consist of interdependent
parts, characteristics, and activities that
7. Social systems are sanction bearing
contribute to and receive from the whole.
8.Social systems are political
3. Social systems are people
9. Social systems have distinctive
4. Social systems are goal oriented
cultures
5. Social systems are structural
10. Social systems are conceptual and
relative
What is School?
o School is a place where formal teaching and learning takes place.

o School was identified as a social systems. There are group of people

who interact with each other in order to achieve the same goal and
interacting with the outside community. ( Lunenberg, 1995)

o Hoy and Miskel ( 2003) both agreed that learning institution had
characteristics of the social system such as the interdependence with
its parts, a complex social interaction and having its own culture.
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BARRUGA, RODELYN
A. MAED STUDENT