One Sociological Foundations of Education Introduction Welcome to the study of another important subject in the Bachelor of Education Curriculum. By the end of this course the student will be able to: 1. Define‚ sociology and sociological foundations in education. 2. Identify any five important points about the relevance of Sociological foundations in education. 3. Examine indigenous Ghanaian Education System and its influence on Western Formal Education. 4. Draw a distinction between educational
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society today everyone has the opportunity to experience some level of quality education irrespective of their class or race. Over the years education has become one of the greatest equalizer that has allowed individuals to achieve their goals and strive in whatever profession they desire. All this was made possible by individuals who have contributed to making education attainable to all. Two such proponent figures are Horace Mann and Paulo Freire. Even though Mann and Freire has contributed and
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E-LEARNING: NEW MANTRA FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION Dr.R.Sivakumar Introduction The old correspondence courses were the first Distance Learning courses but with the advent of Internet in the eighties‚ e-Learning became new mantra for delivering higher education courses over really long distances. The Internet opened new possibilities and now any type of learning content‚ be it for school‚ graduate or masters level‚ employee training‚ research activity or any other type of academic offering
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GCO has helped me better understand empowerment and accountability jin higher education by offering me alternative ways of understanding and valuing knowledge within my own experience as well as offering other ways‚ imagined and real‚ that academia can and should be acting in relation to their position in society. First I think GCO has helped me understand empowerment through valuing experiential knowledge and other ways of knowing the world besides what is determined as academically worthy through
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whether the curriculum plan implemented has achieved its goals and objectives as planned. In other words‚ the curriculum has to be evaluated to determine whether all the effort in terms of finance and human resources has been worthwhile. Various stakeholders want to know the extent to which the curriculum has been successfully implemented. The information collected from evaluating a curriculum forms the basis for making judgements about how successfully has the programme achieved its intended outcomes
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How does Marxism explain the role of education in society? The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is most concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies‚ including the expansion of higher‚ further‚ adult‚ and continuing education. Education has always been seen as a fundamentally optimistic human endeavour characterised by aspirations for progress and betterment. It is understood
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Education is generally described as “the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction.” It is a basic human right because it is considered one of the fundamental guarantees that enable an individual to live his full potential as a human being. Various international agreements entered into by the Philippines‚ including the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals‚ state that the state has a responsibility to guarantee the people’s right
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Apply the functionalist point of view to the phenomenon of female juvenile gangs in Hong Kong and evaluate its explanation. The recent female juvenile gang problem has sparked off public concerns in Hong Kong‚ because they are more rampant in the newly-developed towns such as Tseung Kwan O‚ Tin Shui Wai and Tai Po. Comparing with the figures of girls joining gangs by Dr.T.W.Lo in 2001 and by the Federation in 2005‚ the trend of girls’s participation in gangs is increasing. In the following‚ the
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Understanding the Impacts of Education on any Individuals No human beings are able to survive properly without education. Education is the one who tells men how to think‚ how to work suitably and how to make decisions. It also considered as one of the basic needs like food‚ clothe‚ and shelter. Education is mostly taught in schools and they are responsible of doing so much more than teaching students basic skills and academic subjects. They are capable of teaching a variety of things a book. For
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Essay on Education This essay will discuss to what extent can education overcome social inequality? Social inequality means the lack of social equality‚ whereby individuals in society differ in equal social status. This could be in so many ways such as‚ racism; sexism; ageism; disability; social class; income levels; and sexuality; but social class; income level and poverty are the main factors. Social inequality takes place as principles and power is combined together in order to make some
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