PILLARS OF EDUCATION

1. LEARNING TO KNOW

✓ to better comprehend the world & its complexities

✓ e.g. concentration, memory skills, critical thinking skills, comprehension, asking questions, data gathering & selecting information

2. LEARNING TO DO

✓ learning must transform certified skills into personal competence

✓ initiative and willingness to work

✓ e.g., finding a job that is in line with your technical skills

3. LEARNING TO BE

✓ aims to provide self analytical and social skills to enable individuals to develop to their fullest potential psycho-socially, affectively as well as physically, for a holistically-developed person

✓ e.g. personal development, professional development, self-actualization

4. LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER

✓ aims to expose individuals to the values implicit within human rights, democratic principles, intercultural understanding & respect and peace at all levels of society and human relationships to enable individuals & societies to live in peace and harmony

✓ e.g. rules of discipline

The specific purposes of the school are the following:

a. Cognitive Purposes

✓ teaching the basic cognitive skills such as reading, writing, & speaking

b. Political Purposes

✓ inculcation of patriotism or loyalty to the existing political order

c. Social Purposes

✓ concerns with the socialization of citizens into their various roles in society

d. Economic Purposes

✓ involves training & preparation of citizens for the world of work

 

CULTURAL TRANSMISSION PROCESS

 

1. ENCULTURATION

✓ aquisition of one owns culture thru the process of socialization with much help of parents, peers & siblings

✓ very first familiarization process

• IMMERSION

✓ state where the individual is exposed to the social norms

✓ engage deeply in the activities to absorb all the teachings given

 

2. ACCULTURATION

✓ amalgamation of two cultures

✓ the adoption of a minority cultural group of a majority's culture

• INTEGRATION

✓ adopting from new culture while still maintaining the original culture

• SEPARATION

✓ maintain original culture & minimize contact w/ the new culture

• ASSIMILATION

✓ abandon original culture & adopt from new culture

• MARGINALIZATION

✓ exclusion/discrimination; cannot maintain original culture & cannot assimilate into the new culture

 

• FUNCTIONALIST THEORY (EQUILIBRIUM THEORY)

✓ interdependence & consensus

✓ consensus - normal state of society

✓ social equilibrium - achieved through the process of socialization of members (interdependent) into the basic values and norms

a. TALCOTT PARSONS

✓ conceptualized society as a collection of systems within systems

b. EMILE DURKHEIM

✓ education is the influence exercised by adult generations to arouse and to develop the child in physical, intellectual & moral states

 

• CONFLICT THEORY

✓ assumes a tension in society & its parts due to competing interest of individuals and groups

✓ society holds economic, political, cultural, military power, and not shared values alone

✓ based on four interlocking concepts: competition, structural inequality, revolution, & war

a. KARL MARX

✓ the founder of the CONFLICT school of thought

✓ believed that the class system separates the employers from workers and workers from the benefits of their own labor

b. MAX WEBER

✓ the father of bureaucratic thought

✓ class differences alone could not fully explain the complex ways of society

✓ the main activity of schools is to teach particular “status cultures” both in & outside the classroom

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• INTERACTION THEORIES

✓ focus on the communication & the relationship that exists among and between groups in education

peers, teachers-students, teacher-principal, & teacher-parents

a. LABELLING THEORY

✓ related to expectations

✓ students are labeled either as gifted or learning disabled, fast or slow learner, smart or dumb (affect the quality & speed of learning)

b. EXCHANGE THEORY

✓ based on the concept of reciprocity or mutual benefit

✓ bind individuals (teachers, students, parents, administrators) with obligations (include reward & benefits)

✓ people behave in such a way that one individual can get something from the other & vice versa

KIND OF TENSION

• Tension Between Modernity & Tradition

✓ when for some the process of change is slow, for others it is not so, thereby creating problem of adaptation

• Tension Between Spiritual & Material

✓ when self-worth is equated with material accumulation may lead to apathy, passivity, hopelessness & pessimism

• Tension Between Individual & Universal

✓ while culture is steadily being globalized, this development is being partial

• Tension Between The Global and the Local

✓ challenge to an individual how he or she can adapt to the changing world without forgetting or turning his/her back from the past

• Tension Between Long Term and Short Term Considerations

✓ when people prefer to have quick answers and ready solution to many problems even if its calls for a patient, concerted, negotiated strategy of reform

• New Paradigm Shift In Education

✓ shift from rigid subject matter to a more interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary pedagogical approach

✓ life long education for all

• Global Education

✓ allows students to be more accepting or tolerant of other cultures

• Multicultural Education

✓ envisions to to transform the school so that male and female students, exceptional students, and students from diverse cultural, social-class, racial & ethnic groups experience an equal opportunity to learn (by James Banks)

• Inclusive Education

✓ recognizes the knowledge & experience of women, racial groups & ethnic groups as being just as valid & relevant as the knowledge of dominant groups

• Civic Education

✓ focus on learning for effective participation in democratic & development processes at both local & national levels

✓ focuses on the study of the basic concepts, beliefs and values underlying our democratic political community and constitutional order

• Peace Education

✓ focus on nonviolent alternatives for managing conflict, skills for critical analysis of structural arrangements that produce and legitimize injustice and inequality

• Environmental Education

✓ emphasizes human-earth relationships & fosters a vision of education for sustainable development to build a global culture of ecological responsibility

• Human Rights Education

✓ focus on the values, principles & standards, & human rights & how they can be translated into day-to-day actions

• Cultural Globalization

✓ rapid traversing of ideas, attitudes and values across national borders that generally leads to an interconnectedness and interaction between peoples of diverse cultures and ways of life

• Family

✓ smallest social institution

✓ conjugal family - h/w/c

✓ consanguine family - h/w+p/s/etc.

• Polygamy

✓ man & 2+ woman

• Polyandry

✓ woman & 2+ man

• Cenogamy

✓ polygamy + polyandry (group marriage)

• Patrilocal

✓ married lives w/ husband's side

• Matrilocal

✓ married lives w/ wife's side

• Neolocal

✓ married lives by themselves

• Patriarchal

✓ father is dominant

• Matriarchal

✓ mother is dominant

• Equilitarian

✓ f & m share in making decision



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