Assess the View That the Education System Is the Most Powerful Agent of Political Socialisation.
Assess the view that the Education system is the most powerful agent of political socialisation.
Socialisation is learning the customs, attitudes, and values of a social group, community, or culture. Socialisation is essential for the development of individuals who can participate and function within their societies, as well as for ensuring that a society's cultural features will be carried on through new generations. Socialisation is most strongly enforced by family, school, and peer groups and continues throughout an individual's lifetime.
Education Systems differ from country to country. In most of the western world there are three levels of education, primary, secondary and higher. The contemporary goal of British, American and Irish Education is to help children fit into a technological, hierarchal, yet democratic society. Schools are recognized as institutions, ones that should prepare students to take their places in society. Schools are believed to give young people the ability to develop skills and acquire knowledge so that they can survive on their own in the future. The very structure of today's schools and the messages that they send to children are seen as training for future employment. Students learn to form momentary social relationships, accept categorical treatment, and loose their personal identities. Students move through the school in an orderly fashion, follow precise directions, and learn information that they will be tested on. However, schools should not only be a place where children learn skills that make them employable in the workforce. People are more than just workers- they are parents, citizens, neighbours, and individuals with private goals and desires. It is the role of public education to see that children develop the abilities for all of these roles. They should foster an environment that promotes individual interests and a quest for knowledge. Public education often overlooks the way that children learn best,
Socialisation is learning the customs, attitudes, and values of a social group, community, or culture. Socialisation is essential for the development of individuals who can participate and function within their societies, as well as for ensuring that a society's cultural features will be carried on through new generations. Socialisation is most strongly enforced by family, school, and peer groups and continues throughout an individual's lifetime.
Education Systems differ from country to country. In most of the western world there are three levels of education, primary, secondary and higher. The contemporary goal of British, American and Irish Education is to help children fit into a technological, hierarchal, yet democratic society. Schools are recognized as institutions, ones that should prepare students to take their places in society. Schools are believed to give young people the ability to develop skills and acquire knowledge so that they can survive on their own in the future. The very structure of today's schools and the messages that they send to children are seen as training for future employment. Students learn to form momentary social relationships, accept categorical treatment, and loose their personal identities. Students move through the school in an orderly fashion, follow precise directions, and learn information that they will be tested on. However, schools should not only be a place where children learn skills that make them employable in the workforce. People are more than just workers- they are parents, citizens, neighbours, and individuals with private goals and desires. It is the role of public education to see that children develop the abilities for all of these roles. They should foster an environment that promotes individual interests and a quest for knowledge. Public education often overlooks the way that children learn best,