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    Education serves several important functions in society. It socializes children by teaching them social norms and skills. It helps with social integration by incorporating children into society's structure. Schools also aid social placement by identifying students' abilities. Education transmits culture and innovation by developing intellectual skills. It has manifest functions like socialization and cultural transmission, as well as latent functions such as keeping children off the streets and facilitating relationships.

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    Functions and Importance of

    Education in the Society

    Presented by Group 1
    Socialization

    It is considered as the foremost function of


    education in the society. Children learn
    norms, values, and skills they need to
    function in the society.
    Social Integration
    With the help of education, children
    will be incorporated to the society’s
    structure. This will help the children to
    become socially closer to the society
    consistent with the beliefs and
    practices.
    Social Placement

    Schools identify and classify


    students as thosebright,
    performing, and educationally
    challenged.
    Social and Cultural
    Innovation

    The school becomes the way


    where people develop their
    intellectual capacities to uncover
    the confusions and realities of
    the world.
    Education serves many functions
    and importance in our society.
    Shown below are the broad
    functions of education (Cheng,
    1996).
    Functions
    Intellectual
    The school aims to teach
    you (students) the
    cognitive skills, transmit
    knowledge (information),
    and help you develop
    critical and creative
    thinking.
    Functions
    POLITICAL
    Political
    The school develops civic
    attitudes (those relating to
    you as citizen of a country)
    and exercise rights and
    responsibilities as a citizen.
    Functions
    SOCIAL
    Social
    The school points to
    human development
    and social
    relationships at
    different levels in the
    society.
    Functions
    ECONOMIC
    Economic

    The school wants to


    prepare you for your
    occupational roles in the
    future (after schooling) and
    train you to the labor
    industry.
    Functions
    CULTURAL
    Since we do have norms,
    beliefs, values, and other
    practices in the society, it is
    the role of the school to
    develop your awareness on
    these and imbibe what are
    relevant to you.
    Functions
    EDUCATIONAL
    EDUCATIONAL

    In traditional perspective,
    education and schooling is
    an instrument to develop
    economic, social, political,
    cultural goals of the society.
    Manifest Functions of
    Education

    It is the intended and open goals


    of the institution. Meaning to
    say, education has that primary
    and recognized function in the
    society.
    Manifest Functions
    of Education
    Socialization Cultural Transmission

    Socialization is the process by Norms and values are


    which people acquire a passed down and
    personal identity and learn
    transmitted to the
    the knowledge, language, and
    social skills required to succeeding generation
    interact with others with the aid of school
    Latent Functions of
    Education

    It is a function that is not


    intended (meaning, it is not
    thought to be the main goal
    why students go to school).
    Latent Functions of
    Education
    Off the Streets Matchmaking

    This lessens the People meet their future


    opportunity of the children husbands and wife at
    to have brawls and school. Endearments like
    troubles in the streets ‘high school sweethearts’
    unlike those who have not and ‘college sweethearts’
    schooled.
    are not new to you.
    TYPES OF EDUCATION
    FORMAL INFORMAL
    EDUCATION EDUCATION

    This type of education takes This type of education does not


    place in the premises of the happen in school and has no
    school. particular learning method.
    • Learning in a classroom • Teaching the child at home
    • School grading/certification, basic numeric
    college, and university • Learning to cook for a meal at
    degrees home

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