SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

ARIEL A.PALER,MAED
"Human existence depends upon compassion
and curiosity leading to knowledge, but
curiosity and knowledge without compassion is
inhuman and compassion without
curiosity and knowledge is ineffectual."

Victor Weisskopf
WHAT IS EDUCATION?

 Plato: The purpose of education is to cultivate the

intellect, pursued for its own sake, in order to uncover
the universal themes and natural laws that the prepared
mind can discern beneath the surface confusion of life.

 Socrates: The purpose of an education is to prepare

citizens to participate in public affairs
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

 Social responsibility of education is a process

whereby the whole community transmits to the
next generation appropriate values, traditions,
skills and cultural norms (Sihem,2012).

 Accepting ideas and beliefs of others while also

respecting and caring for peers feelings in order
to accomplish a task.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
 DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL CONCIOUSNESS
By Berman (1990)
DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING OF OUR
INTERDEPENDENCE
-global education
-multicultural education
-environmental education
-systems analysis OPPORTUNITIES TO BE A RESPONSIBLE MEMBER
OF A COMMUNITY
EXPLORING REAL WORLD ISSUES -shared goals
-inquiry -participatory decision-making
-critical thinking -collective efforts
-dialogue -acknowledgement of community
-negotiation accomplishments

ENGAGEMENT
DEVELOPING BASIC PASTICIPATORY WITH THE BASIC SOCIAL SKILLS
UNDERSTANDING AND SKILLS
-organizing skills
WORLD -cooperation
-conflict management
-consensus-building skills
-taking the perspective of others
-group problem-solving skills
-presenting ourselves
-long term thinking skills

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS

-community service
-students helping students
-in-school service
-examples of individuals and
organizations making a difference
Obstacles to social responsibility
 curricula that provide neither guidance on how to
promote socially responsible citizenship nor the time
necessary for it
 administrators who may be more concerned with orderly
classrooms than with the substance of the teaching and
learning that takes place in them
 teachers whose view of citizenship and social
responsibility is confined to flag pledges, voting,
completing assignments and obedience
 parents and community members who think a school's
primary function is to get students to memorize facts and
score well on tests so they can get into college
 parents and community members who may protest student
involvement in controversial public issues
“I do not accept what you say;
but I will defend with my life
your right to say so”
-Voltaire
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