The School as a Social Institution, Educational Presentation PDF

# The School as a Social Institution ## Objectives: 1. Know that the school is a sub-culture and sub-society. 2. See the relation of the school to the community. 3. Identify the functions of the school in relation to acculturation and socialization. 4. Explain the functions of the school re: posit...

# The School as a Social Institution ## Objectives: 1. Know that the school is a sub-culture and sub-society. 2. See the relation of the school to the community. 3. Identify the functions of the school in relation to acculturation and socialization. 4. Explain the functions of the school re: position, status, role (ascribed and achieved). ## What is a School? ✓ It is an institution established by society for the basic enculturation of the young. -Defined by Cook and Cook. ## Educational Institution An illustration of a school building with a clock tower and "School" written on it. It is surrounded by green grass and two trees. The words "EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION" are written below. ## Learning Environment An illustration of a classroom setting with a teacher standing by the blackboard that reads "LEARNING ENVIRONMENT." Another teacher and four students are shown around the classroom. ## A Teacher Addresses Students An image of a teacher standing and addressing a group of students in a classroom. The teacher is pointing at the blackboard, which has various mathematical equations and other words written on it. ## Students Walk Through the School Hall A group of students walk in a line through a hallway in the school. ## Teacher Helping Students A picture of a teacher sitting with four students. The teacher is looking at a student's work, and the student is working on a piece of paper. ## Students Paint With Their Hands An image of six students sitting around a table in a classroom, each painting with their hands. ## Teacher Addressing Students An image of a teacher standing in front of a room full of students. The teacher is dressed in a gray blouse. All the students are sitting at tables with books in front of them. ## Two Students at Desks An image of two students sitting at a desk in a classroom, both smiling and holding paintbrushes. ## Social Network An illustration of eight small white circles with silhouettes of people inside, connected by light blue dotted lines. ## Students Performing a Hand Stack An image of a group of students standing in a circle with their hands in the middle, forming a pyramid. ## Teacher Addressing Students An image of a teacher in a pink shirt addressing a group of students in a classroom setting. The students are at tables with laptops. ## Physical Education A collage of four pictures, showing students participating in physical activity. Top left, a row of students stretches on blue exercise mats. Top right, a student in a green shirt jumps in the air with his legs outstretched. Bottom left, a row of students stretches on blue exercise mats. Bottom right, two students sit on the ground side-by-side. ## Teacher Addressing Students An image of a teacher standing in front of a class of students in a classroom setting. The teacher is pointing at the blackboard, which has ABCs and an image of a lightbulb drawn on it. ## Students Show Thumbs Up A collage of two pictures. The left side shows six students standing together, all showing thumbs up. The right side shows a group of children in a classroom standing up with their hands raised. ## Kindergarten Students An image of a teacher standing with eight kindergarten students. The teacher is in the middle with a globe in front of her. The children are sitting in a circle around a table. The board behind them reads, "New Words"- with a list of words. ## Students Using Technology An image of a classroom split into two sections, showing young students using technology in different ways. The section on the left shows a teacher assisting a group of students while they're using laptops and tablets. The other section shows a student sitting down, smiling, and reading a book. ## Students Learning and Teacher Leading a Classroom An image of a teacher leading a class of students. The left side of the picture shows the teacher standing in front of a blackboard, and the right side is a classroom setting with students at desks reading books. ## How Schools Came to Be Established? An image of a school building with "School" written on a sign above it, situated in a small neighborhood. ## Functions of the Schools An image of a school building with "School" written on a sign above it, situated in a small neighborhood. - **Intellectual** purposes of schooling include the following: to teach basic cognitive skills, to transmit specific knowledge, and to help students to acquire HOTS. - **Enculturation**. Through this process, the young internalize the culture of their time and place, build the social aspects of their personality, and thus become acceptable persons in society. - **Socialization**. The SOCIAL purposes of schooling are to socialize into the various roles, behaviors, and values of the society. - **Acculturation** wherein pupils learn about other countries and peoples, their way of life, customs, traditions, products, etc. - Today, the school is assuming other functions that used to belong to the home and the church. ## Bases of Ascribed Roles: - **Sex**. - Sex is evident at birth and fixed for life. - Sex divides people into male and female and may be the basis for work and behavior. - **Age.** - Age which changes and therefore prevents permanent role and status. Adults are expected to act differently from children. - **Kin.** - Kin affects the social class to which one belongs. - **Race.** - Race is a basis for imposed role. ## Achieved Roles - Although an individual has role and status at birth, he can work out his own role. When a person is born, he has a definite place in society or a location within a given social order. This is his position which carries rights and duties. He can rise to higher and higher positions. ## School as Society and Culture - The school is both sub-society and sub-culture. - It is a small society within a bigger society, the community. It has its own culture: i.e. it has its own rules, regulations, practices, traditions, etc. - The school and culture are very closely interrelated. The school perpetuates culture by transmission to the young and to foreigners. This is done through maintenance of values or attitudes. ## The School and Community - The school as a part of the community and must therefore serve it. - The community should serve the school. - The community as resource for the school - The school may function independently but use the resources of the community in three levels. - Observation level in which the school just the kind of resources available in the community. - Participation level in which the school makes use of the resources of the community for work education projects. - Community improvement wherein the school works on community problems and contribute to solutions of problems. ## Educative Effects of the Community - Agencies of the community that influence the young - Effects of new inventions and discoveries - Effects of changing environment and changing culture - New responsibilities assigned to teachers - (Census takers, Election inspectors, NCEE examiners) ## Evaluation of the School - Schools are evaluated from three points of view. 1. Point of view of physical environment. 2. Point of view of human relationship 3. Point of view of social climate ## Educational Implications - Since the school is a very important national institution, schools run by foreigners should be closely supervised by Dep. ED. - There should be better screening of teachers, not only as far as academic qualifications are concerned, but also with reference to character, emotional maturity, and ideology. - The school and the community should work together so that the kind of graduates turned out will be leaders not only in the academics, but also in the community. - The school should find out the manpower needs of the community and give the training needs. - The community should make the resources available to the school and school premises should be made available to the community. - The government should not always make use of teachers for its projects as this lessens the time teachers devote to instruction. - Parents should be invited to school activities that will show them what the school is doing. - To foster better relations between school and community. Parents may be involved in some school projects and activities. ## Headline The image being analyzed is a news screen capture from Bombo Radyo Iloilo, a Filipino language radio station. The headline text "PAG-HIRE SANG MGA MANUNUDLO, WALA GINA-IMPLUWENSYAHAN SANG MGA PULITIKO SUNO SA DEPED #BomboRadyolloilo" translates to "THE HIRING OF TEACHERS IS NOT INFLUENCED BY POLITICIANS ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. #BomboRadyolloilo. " Beneath the headline is a story about the Department of Education's policy regarding the hiring process for teachers. The Director of Education for Region 6 stated that only the school superintendent can hire teachers and that the hiring process is not influenced by politicians.