education

functions of schools

• McNergney and Herbert (2001) described the school as first and foremost a social institution, that is, an established organization having an identifiable structure and a set of functions meant to preserve and extend social order.

functions of schools

• the school is a place for the contemplation of reality, and our task as teachers, in simplest terms, is to show this reality to our students, who are naturally eager about them.
• at home, we teach reality to children in a profoundly personal, informal, and unstructured way.
• in school, we teach reality in professional, formal and structured way.

purposes of SCHOOLing

• intellectual purposes
• political purposes
• social purposes
• economic purposes

intellectual purpoes

• to teach the basic cognitive skills such as reading, writing, and mathematics; to transmit specific knowledge, for example in literature, history and sciences; and to help students acquire higher-order thinking skills such as analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.

politacal purposes

• to inculcate allegiance to the existing political order (patriotism); to prepare citizens who will participate in the political order; to help assimilate diverse cultural groups into a common political order; and to teach children the basic law of society.

social purposes

• to socialize children into the various roles, behaviors, and values of the society.

economic purposes

• to prepare students for their later occupational roles and to select, train, and allocate individuals into the devision of labor.

multiple functions of the schools

• technical-economic functions
• human/social functions
• political functions
• cultural functions
• education functions

technical/economic functions

• they refer to the contributions of schools to the technical or economic development and needs of the individual, the institution, the local community, the society and the international community.

human/social functions

• they refer to the contribution of schools to human development and social relationships at different levels of the society.

political functions

• they refer to the contribution of schools to the political development at different levels of society.

cultural functions

• they refer to the contribution of schools to the cultural transmission and development at different levels of society.

education functions

• they refer to the contribution of schools to the development and maintenance of education at the different level of society.

manifest functions of education

• socialization
• social control
• social placement
• transmitting culture
• promoting social and political integration
• agent of change

latent functions of education

• restricting some activities
• matchmaking and production of social networks
• creation of generation gap

functions of schools as stated by calderon

• conservation functions
• instructional functions
• research functions
• social service functions