FUNCTIONS AND IMPORTANCE

OF EDUCATION IN THE SOCIETY

Group 2
 What is education?

 Education is the most crucial aspect of society which

should be given considerable attention in order for it
to become a powerful tool in making every
individual a catalyst of change. Changes is very
important socially progressive and functional
community.
 THE FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION

 Functional theory stresses that education serve in

fulfilling a society various needs and feasibly the most
important function of education is socialization.
 MAJOR FUNCTION OF EDUCATION

 SOCIALIZATION
 SOCIAL INTEGRATION
 SOCIAL PLACEMENT
 SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INNOVATION
 SOCIALIZATION

 The French sociologists Emile Durkheim (18-58), established

the academic discipline of sociology, characterized schools as
“ socialization agencies that teach children how to get along
with others and prepare them for adult economic roles”
 SOCIAL INTEGRATION

For a society to work, functionalists say, people must

subscribe to a common set of beliefs and values. As this
development was a goal of the system of free,
compulsory education that developed in the nineteenth
century.
 SOCIAL PLACEMENT

 Beginning in grade school, students are identified by

teachers and other school officials either as bright and
motivated or less bright and even educationally challenged.
Depending on how they are identified, children are taught at
the level that is thought to suit them best. In this way, they
are presumably prepared for their later stations in life.
 SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INNOVATION

 Is a fourth function of education. Our scientists cannot make

important scientific discoveries, artists and thinkers cannot
come up with great works of arts unless they have been
educated in the many subjects they need to know for their
chosen path.
 IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION

 Educational institutions are important in reproducing the

existing beliefs system and practices of a particular society. It
accomplishes this goal by allotting to the individual learners
the roles they need to fulfil as adult members of society.