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What Is Education As A Social Institution

Education is a social institution that teaches children academic knowledge, skills, and cultural norms to live prosperously. As a social institution, education provides learning spaces and environments in schools under teacher guidance. It molds behavior, imparts knowledge and enhances skills by teaching punctuality, respect for authority, citizenship, household management, cultural transmission, human rights, and technological advancement. The functions of education as a social institution include socialization, regulating citizen behavior, broader social integration, social and economic mobility, and stimulating social development through humanistic, civic, and economic purposes.

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What Is Education As A Social Institution

Education is a social institution that teaches children academic knowledge, skills, and cultural norms to live prosperously. As a social institution, education provides learning spaces and environments in schools under teacher guidance. It molds behavior, imparts knowledge and enhances skills by teaching punctuality, respect for authority, citizenship, household management, cultural transmission, human rights, and technological advancement. The functions of education as a social institution include socialization, regulating citizen behavior, broader social integration, social and economic mobility, and stimulating social development through humanistic, civic, and economic purposes.

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WHAT IS EDUCATION AS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION?

Education as a social institution is a set of patterns, norms, roles meant to provide an


environment of learning skills and cultural values to live a prosperous life.

Education is a social institution through which a society’s children are taught basic
academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms. It is the social institution
through which society provides its members with knowledge, including basic facts, job
skills, and cultural norms and values.

REASONS WHY EDUCATION ITS A SOCIAL INSTITUTE.

Education can be acquired in a school which is an educational institution designed to


provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under
the direction of teachers.  As an educational organization, the school provides the
students to gain knowledge, ability and attitude in accordance with the aims and
principles of the educational system. The school is a social organization on its own as
well as it can be handled within the context of the relations and its place within the
society. The following can be tagged as reasons education is seen as a social institute:

 Children learn punctuality


 Time management
 Respect the authority of their teacher/elders which prepares them to respect their
boss
 Teaches a child to be a good Citizen
 Teaches a child how to operate a house hold
 It provides a formal structure and an opportunity for a transfer of cultural knowledge
 Teaches human right and how students can exercise these rights.
 Encourages technological advancement, innovations and discovery
 Creates formal space for learning subject base, new idea and experiences.
 Molds behaviour, impart knowledge and enhance skills.
 Encourages and enhances association with peers, groups, etc

What are the functions of education as a social institution?

1. Socialization

Socialization is one of the functions of education as a social institution. It provides a


conscious instruction program aimed at inculcation of values and skills needed to live a
prosperous life. Similarly, education forms and develops the personality of individuals
and society as a whole by developing physical, emotional, and intellectual capabilities
and habits.

2. Regulation of behavior of citizens


Education plays an important part in cultivating behavior which is conforming to the
collective norms and values of society. Through education, people transmit a way of life
and values to the new generation.

3. Broader integration

Education integrates people into a broader society by providing opportunities for extra-
curricular’ activities and the informal relationship among students and teachers.

4. Social and economic mobility

The educational system is expected to provide opportunities for social and economic
mobility by selecting and training the ablest and industrious youth for a higher-status
position in society.

5. Social development

Education ensures social development by increasing the basic competencies of an


individual and nation as a whole. It acts as the most important tool used for social
progress as it helps improve living conditions through knowledge creation and
research.

Education serves four important purposes thereby stimulating meaningful social


development. These important purposes of education are as follows:

 Humanistic Purpose: Education focuses on the development of virtues to their full


extent both at the personal and collective levels.

 Civic Purpose: Development and promotion of civic sense are one of the important
functions of education as a social institution. This helps enhance public life and
provides opportunities for young people to participate in the progress of society.
 Economic purpose: Social equips individuals with intellectual, emotional, and
physical skills. These skills make them productive and instrumental in the
enhancement of society’s living conditions. It is education that also inculcates values
of social equity and justice to do away with the economic miseries in soc

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