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Sociological Foundation of Education

Sociological Foundation of Education. Sri Duryodhan Pradhan Lecturer in Education KHEMUNDI COLLEGE; DIGAPAHANDI. Education and Society. Schools exist within, not apart from, social context Schools emerges within society. Education and Society. Why school exist in Society?

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Sociological Foundation of Education

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  1. Sociological Foundation of Education Sri Duryodhan Pradhan Lecturer in Education KHEMUNDI COLLEGE; DIGAPAHANDI

  2. Education and Society Schools exist within, not apart from, social context Schools emerges within society

  3. Education and Society Why school exist in Society? Is education “Neutral”? Why do we have Adventist Schools? Is bias in education okay?

  4. Society Economic Culture Technology Education Politics Schools Home Church Others

  5. Education and Society Educators cannot meaningfully consider the development or delivery of curriculum without reflecting on the relationship between schools and society.

  6. A Dynamic, Changing Society • Society as a Source of Change • Schools as Agents of Change • Knowledge as an Agent of Change

  7. Society as a Source of Change • Society changes rapidly • Sometimes education can not cope up with the fast changing society • Making the “Preparing for students for the world of Tomorrow” is difficult • Think about what we (society) have today that we don’t have last year, or five years ago, or even ten years ago.

  8. Schools as Agents of Change Changing the literacy. From 3Rs to cultural literacy, scientific literacy, computer literacy, technological literacy, television(or electronic) literacy, and information literacy • Dealing with Diversity • Diversity of culture. Impact of globalization • Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation • How do Adventist schools deal with this?

  9. Knowledge as Agent of Change Has knowledge grown? • Explosion of Knowledge • What Knowledge Is of Most Worth? • Organizing Knowledge • Subject-centered • Areas of Knowledge

  10. Processing Social-Educational Priorities What is your schools priority? • Education for All Students • Child-centered, Activity-centered, Experience-centered • Focus on Academically Talented Students • Curriculum to challenge the “smart” students • Focus on Disadvantaged Students • How to help the disadvantage students gain same acces to education?

  11. Planning for Educational Change • What is the aim of education? Should aim of education changeable? • Schools should prepare education that is not separate from the world. The world is not static. • Creating relevant curriculum for the changing world. • Adventist education • Preparing the students for the world today and the world to come. (White)

  12. Christian Curriculum and Society • The curriculum must prepare each student “for the joy of service in this world and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come” (White, Education, p. 13) • Christian curriculum should Consider the world today. But Christian curriculum should not forget the curriculum for preparing student for kingdom.

  13. THANK YOU

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