Less9

Cards (21)

  • Education
    The social institution that formally socializes members of society, it refers to the process through which skills, knowledge, and values are transmitted from the teachers to the learners
  • Education brings about continuity, which is an important factor for development
  • John Maxwell: 'You can pay now, and play later, or you can play now and pay later. But either way, you are going to pay.'
  • Literacy
    The presence of cognitive skills in reading and writing. It is still the main objective to be pursued in education.
  • Alvin Toffler: 'The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn'
  • Latent function of education

    The unintended functions that are brought about in the school environment
  • Manifest function of education
    The obvious and intended purpose of school, such as career training in college or career selection before graduating high school
  • Functions of education for the individual
    • Development of inborn potentialities
    • Modifying behavior
    • All-round development
    • Preparing for the future
    • Developing personality
    • Helping with adjustability
    • Serving as a human right
  • Functions of education towards society
    • Social change and control
    • Reconstruction of experiences
    • Development of social and moral values
    • Providing opportunity for equality
  • Functions of education towards the country
    • Inculcation of civic and social responsibility
    • Training for leadership
    • National integration
    • Total national development
  • Effects of education
    • Gives knowledge
    • Leads to career progression
    • Builds character
    • Leads to enlightenment
    • Helps a nation progress
    • Develops productive citizenry
    • Enables self-actualization
  • Formal education
    Based in the classroom and provided by trained teaching and non-teaching personnel
  • Non-formal education
    An organized educational activity that takes place outside a formal setup. It is usually flexible and learner-centered and it has no age limit as everybody is part of a non-formal education program.
  • Horace Mann (1796-1859) was known as the "Father of American Education" and was a major force behind the establishment of unified school systems
  • French Sociologist Emile Durkheim described schools as agents of socialization that prepare children for their future adult economic roles
  • Religion
    A person's adherence to a set of beliefs or teaching about the deepest and most elusive of life's mysteries
  • Religion (according to Emile Durkheim)

    A unified system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things, i.e. things set apart and forbidden - beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a "Church"
  • Characteristics of religion (according to Emile Durkheim)

    • Clear distinction between the profane and the sacred
    • Belief and faith as forms of acceptance of sacred things without clear evidence or proof
    • Use of rituals and organized forms of practices to stimulate the faith of people
    • Faithful members gather to organize religious communities
  • Religion (according to Karl Marx)

    The "opium of the masses" - an expression of material realities and economic injustice, used by oppressors to make people feel better about the distress they experience due to being poor and exploited
  • Religion (according to Max Weber)

    The worldly orientation of Calvinism led to the development of the capitalist spirit among the Protestants of Europe. Religion can affect a society's behavior and can thereby become a possible agent of social change.
  • Institutionalized religions in the world
    • Monotheist religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
    • Polytheist religions (Hinduism, Buddhism)