Schools and the Social Dimensions of

Education
 Skhole- (Grk.) - leisure

- used for development

- discussed matters related to enriching knowledge, skills, and virtues
School is the most important agency of education.
Yogendra Sharma
 School:
Schools is a special environment, where a certain quality of life and certain
types of activities and occupations are provided with the object of securing
the childs development along desirable lines.
John Dewey
Schools are institutions developed by civilized man for the
purpose of aiding in the preparation of the young to be well
adjusted and efficient members of the society.
-JS Ross
 Social Dimensions of Education
- studies human diversity with the commitment of promoting social literacy,
social competence and social efficiency to pre-service teachers and teacher
practitioners
- conceived as an instrument to educate individuals about human
differences and to address issues on human diversity that deter the
attainment of self- development, cultural solidarity, cooperation, peace and
progress.
 Need for a Systematic Study of Schools
favorite subject of people from different walks of life
grounded on daily experiences and observations
 The Need for a Systematic Study of Schools
The discussion about schools has been the favorite subject of people
from different walks of life. For example, the analysis of school and its
role in social, economic, political, cultural, moral, and global life has
been the interest of social philosophers, reformers, politicians,
economists, policy makers, developmentalists, scholars, and other
professional groups.
 The Interdisciplinary Analysis of Schools
Numerous fields have put interest in schools such as philosophy,
psychology, law, history, economics, and political science.
Philosophy looks into the deeper meaning of the existence as goals of
schools in the individuals and society.
Psychology provides learning theories and principles as well as
development stages of the learners that guide effective and
meaningful teaching and learning process.
Law provides legal framework to which teaching and managing
schools are practiced.
 THE INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF SCHOOLS
There is no single discipline that has sole privilege of analyzing
schools, but all these disciplines bring out a meaningful and integrated
collection of understanding of schools as a formal educative institution.
DEFINING SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF
EDUCATION
Social Dimension of Education- one of course that studies human diversity
with the commitment of promoting social literacy, social competence &
social efficiency to pre-service teachers and teacher practitioners.

Human diversity- means understanding the diff. and uniqueness of

individuals.
Social efficiency- condition characterized by valuing human diversity,
developing respectful and responsible behaviors, flexibility, and
adaptability of learners in a complex, ill-structured and rapidly changing
environment.
Howitt Et Al defined social literacy as possessing the skills to simply
recognize and accept the diffs. of individuals without making value
judgment.
Ex: seeing someone of a different culture to your own, yet you are not able
to judge that person by his differences.
Social competence- possessing the social, emotional, and intellectual skills
and behavior needed to succeed as a member of society and the world.
Why Social Dimensions of Education is offered to pre-service?
The place where individuals live today is a world of diversity.
People differ in many ways as to age, ethnicity, gender, religion, political
beliefs, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender indentity, and
race.
 Thus, it makes the course broad in scope and multi-disciplinary in
approach. A course that relies heavily on social science theories and
researches to perform its social analysis of group life.
SOCIOLOGY AS THE PRINCIPAL DISCIPLINE IN THE
STUDY OF SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATION
Social Dimensions of education introduces a wide range of
social science theories and researches as they relate to
education, much widely used theories and researches in the
course are derived from sociology.
Sociology
1. Sociology is a branch of science that uses systematic methods of
empirical investigation and critical analysis developing and refining a
body of knowledge about human social and activities. (Anthony
Giddens)
2. Sociology is the scientific study of social interactions and of social
organization. (Michael Hughes)
3. Sociology is a systematic study of social life created by people and in
turn influencing their behavior in a continuous interaction. (R.
Schaefer)
4. Sociology is the study of human behaviors as they are affected by
social interactions within groups, organizations societies and the
planet. (J. Ferrante)
UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIOLOGICAL LENS TO
STUDY SCHOOLS
 As a field of discourse, sociology systematically analyzes the school, the
community, and the relationship among their members. Sociologists
observe and analyze schools, particularly their educational practices and
ordinary activities that are not given much attention and thoughtful
consideration.
 Empiricism methods where sociologist gathering facts to make
theories in order to avoid abstract speculation about the relationships
they are investigating.
Auguste Comte (Father of Sociology) propounded that while many
aspects of society are observable to individuals in a vague manner,
scientific method uncovers sociological phenomena that are not always
so obvious.
The Nature and Approach of Sociology
The empirical nature and approach of sociology are grounded on
Platos assumptions about man and society. These assumptions constitute
the blueprint and cardinal truths to which sociologist make their
investigations of the individuals and the social behavior in the school,
community, and other social settings.
The ff. are Platonic assumptions, according to Bolender (2007)
1. Man is an organism that tends toward survival.
2. Man is a social animal that survives in groups.
3. Man lives in an ordered society that developed through the social
patterns that are established through the rules, truth, and structure he
creates.
4. The order of society, particularly its social processes, structures and
interaction is knowable.
EDUCATION AND SCHOOLING: ARE THEY ONE AND
THE SAME?
 Understanding the difference between education and schooling is
important in social dimensions of education. The principal reason for
education to be largely equated with schooling is that in the 1970s,
education was measured by the years of schooling and the type and level
of educational credentials an individual had achieved.
These concept pervaded in those years because of the
three assumptions:

Only schools could meet all the learning needs of individuals.

Education could be achieve once and for all during the school years.
Anyone who lacked schooling was classified as uneducated.
 Education - broader term than schooling; means to draw out,
facilitating the realization of the full human potentials of an individual
that takes place in formal and informal settings.
Schooling sum of experiences, activities, and processes which occurs
within the educational institutions.
FOUR TYPES OF EDUCATION IN
MODERN SOCIETY
1. Informal education refers to incidental learning derived from home,
church, mass media, peers, internet, and other educative agencies and
social institutions which are not organized, specified, anticipated or
predicted.
2. Formal education refers to the education which normally takes place
within the four walls of the classroom with the presence of teachers,
guided by a set of organized activities that are intended to transmit
skills, knowledge, and values, as well as to develop mental abilities.
3. Non-formal Education refers to organized instruction that takes place
outside school settings meant to upgrade skills of workers or provide
new skills to out of school youth and adult illiterates.
4. Alternative learning system/ education refers to the learning system,
which can be a practical option for those who do not want to trained
under the formal schooling, due to various circumstances in life.
Prepared by:
James Ryan Mansalapuz
Rose ann Almanzor
Leopoldo Morte
Eric Comia

(BTTE ETRI and ETRO 3A)

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