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What is a major challenge faced by Ghana, according to the concept of dual economy?
What is the primary aim of education in Ghana, according to the content?
What is a priority need of Ghana, according to the content?
What is a function of education in Ghana, as stated in the content?
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What is a characteristic of a developing country like Ghana?
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What should education aim to produce in Ghana, according to the content?
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What is a priority need of Ghana, as stated in the content?
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Study Notes
Aims of Education
- Aims of education are the reasons why we educate ourselves
- Aims of education can be influenced by personal needs, problems, value systems, and worldview
What Shapes an Individual's Aim of Education?
- Needs: physical, psychological, and social needs
- Problems: challenges and limitations one wants to overcome
- Value systems: what one considers important and unimportant
- Worldview: how one sees life
Ultimate Aim of Education
- To develop a whole human being
- Develops the "head" (intellectual development), "heart" (moral development), and "hand" (acquisition of manual or vocational skills)
Broad Aims of Education
- Physical development: education should aim at the physical development of the individual
- Mental development: education should help individuals develop problem-solving skills and become mentally healthy
- Social development: education should help individuals become sociable and live in harmony with others
- Emotional development: education should help individuals develop positive emotions and manage negative emotions
- Moral development: education should help individuals make good judgments, tell right from wrong, and develop good manners
- Spiritual development: education should aim at the spiritual development of the individual, regardless of their beliefs
- Vocational skills: education should predispose learners to different vocations, guide them to acquire occupational skills, and place learners in vocations of their interest
How Education Can Help Achieve These Aims
- Physical development: observing personal and social hygiene, activity-based learning, games and sporting activities, health inspections, and serving nutritious snacks and meals
- Mental development: teaching school subjects, using audio-visual aids, training children to reason abstractly, and using guidance and counseling programs
- Social development: putting in place events and activities that require students to work together, such as games and athletics, clubs, and group work
- Emotional development: motivating learners to manage emotions, setting the right examples, assisting students to control specific emotions, and using play therapy and counseling sessions
- Moral development: teaching students to know what is right and wrong, enforcing positive and consistent discipline, using rewards as incentives, and using persuasions and involving students in setting rules
- Spiritual development: exposing students to the teaching of religions, conducting school worship, guiding students to observe moral codes, and teaching students to love others as themselves
- Vocational skills: teaching creative and manipulative skills, taking learners on excursions to various workplaces, including vocational and technical subjects in the school curriculum, and employing guidance coordinators to guide and place children in occupations
Social Aims of Education
- Social aims of education have to do with the qualities and aspirations society expects one to have after completing the educational process
- Social aims of education may conflict with one's individual aims
Characteristics of a Developing Society Like Ghana
- Large percentage of primary products constituting the national product
- Economic mismanagement
- Political instability
- Sticking to archaic cultures
- Shortage of food and manufactured products
- Low level of sanitation and health
- High degree of dual economy
- Size of population and rate of population growth
- Unexploited resources
Needs of Ghana
- Agricultural and industrial products
- Well-equipped hospitals and clinics
- Political stability through political education
- Good morals
- Transportation
- Vocational and technical skills
- Cultural and civic education
Aims and Functions of Education in Ghana
- Education should aim at making the population proficient in numeracy and literacy
- Education should develop critical and logical thinking skills
- Education should develop vocational and technical skills
- Education should produce patriotic and informed citizens who will contribute ideas to solve the country's problems
- Education should produce honest, truthful, courageous, and kind boys and girls, men and women
- Education should produce a healthy Ghanaian society that respects the rules of hygiene
- Education should promote Ghanaian culture and heritage
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This quiz is part of the EDTE 102 course on Social Foundations of Education in Ghana, covering the aims of education and personal values.
