Effects of School on Community | Citizenship Education and Community Engagement

 

Analyze the effect of school on the community in a progressive society.

Course: Citizenship Education and Community Engagement

Course code 8606

Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment

ANSWER

 Effects of School on Community

The school must play an active part in relating itself to society. There are many educative forces in society, e.g. places of historical interest, temples, churches, mosques,s, and remnants of human civilization. These forces may act as educators to young people. To create a relationship between school and society, the school can organize educational excursions. Again, the relationship between the two can be consolidated if schools can assemble different agencies of education and organize cultural programs where students, teachers, parents, and other members of society will take part.

Socialization and acculturation among all, particularly different sections of society, will enrich learners’ society.

1.  Keep Pace with Social Needs

Society is an ever-changing entity that needs today. It may have no relevance in the society of tomorrow. All the changes that occur in social life are associated with changes in human needs. A school has to keep pace with the changing society and to do that the curriculum should be reviewed regularly keeping in mind the change in social demand and needs.

2.  Selection of Rules for Society

School directs society, reforms society, and ensures the progress of society by analyzing the principles and rules and selecting only those that have some good effects on society. If the school fails to do it, society will become a stagnant organization.

3.  Moral and Intellectual Development of Students

Schools are established in many societies of the world to instill in the pupils those skills that will afford them the opportunity of taking their rightful positions in society, but this function cannot be adequately accomplished without the assistance of the home because both home and the school perform complementary functions in the moral and intellectual development of the child. This means that the child cannot be educated in a vacuum or in isolation.

4.  Development of Personality

For a child to be educated there must be an interaction between him and his physical and social environment. By this, we mean that education is the development of personality. It is something that goes on both inside and outside the home and in the school. In other words, education is an activity of the whole community.

5.  Transmission of the Cultural Values

Education is used to transmit cultural values to the next generation. One important implication of looking at education as the transmitter of cultural values is the fact that education can be influenced by the culture of the society in which it takes place. For this reason, one may infer that for a child to be educated, he must be influenced by his environment and, in turn, be capable of influencing it. It is only through the concept of the continuous interaction of the individual and his society that the development of personality can be properly understood. We have noted above that education is a means through which the cultural values of a particular society are transmitted from one generation to another. Through this process, society can achieve basic social conformity and ensure that its traditional values, beliefs, attitudes, and aspirations are maintained and preserved.