Name; M.

Ishaq

SUMMARY

1. The Relationship between School and Society

2. Schools as social agents and social critics
School
• WHAT IS A SCHOOL?
• Oxford English Dictionary definition:

• an institution for educating children.

• School is a special institution, created to serve specific social needs.

• Schools drive its aim from society

Society
• A society is a group of people living according to a shared culture.

• Society refers to a group of persons who share a culture, government, institutions,

geographic land

• A person can belong to several societies at a time

religious, professional, and social

RELATION BETWEEN SCHOOL & SOCIETY

• Schools shape children’s perceptions of the world, the values, beliefs, and norms of society
are internalized within children so that they come to think and act like other members of the
society.

• Schools helps in building a nation.

RELATION BETWEEN SCHOOL & SOCIETY

• A good society is the product of a good school system and a good school system is the
product of a good society. So there must be intimate relationships between the school and
the society.

School is the representative of society :

• School are special institution which strives for the fulfillment of the desires of society.
 • School is nothing but a reflection of the needs of society.

Society provides a line of action to education (School)

• School cannot decide its objectives by itself.

• For the realization of the objectives of education, the educational institutions are
established in the society.

IMPACT OF PARTNERSHIP
• Upgraded school facilities

• Improved school leadership and staffing

• Higher quality learning programs for students

• New resources and programs to improve teaching and curriculum

• Resources for after-school programs and family supports

Agents involve between school and community

o The main group and agents involved in the dynamics of the relationship between school and
community are:

o School administration

o Teachers

o Non-teaching staff

o Students and parents

o Governing bodies

o School board.

Schools as social agents and social critics

Credentialism
• Schools supply the needed manpower requirements of industry and labor. To do this , it
provides credentials or certifications to a number of individuals going to school.
Credentialing is the mechanism to which schools give credentials (grades) and degrees that
determine the job opportunities available to individuals in society.

• Interactionist Perspective- Interactionist see degrees as symbol of status and power.

• Functional Perspective- Functionalist suggest that credential are necessary for society’s
survival and job opportunities.
• Critical Perspective- Critical theorist argue that school credentials are weapons to gain
power and social or economic advantage.

Political Integration
• Schools promote political integration and develops a sense of national identify that stabilizes
the political system.

• Functional Perspective- Functionalism contends that education has positive effects on the
attitudes toward the political landscape of a given country.

• Conflict Perspective- School is an indoctrinating agent of that state to extend its political
ideology.

• Critical Perspective- Critical theorists contend that the commonly accepted political
ideology, principles, and philosophies must be periodically revisited, redefined, evaluated,
and reframed since they may not hold true today or may be irrelevant with the passing of
time.

Research and Development

• Schools are the guardians of the society’s future.

• Functional Perspective- Functionalist paradigm believes that schools assure that

dysfunctional knowledge, attitudes, and skills are replaced by functional ones.

• Conflict Perspective- Conflict theorists believe that the research agenda of the poor and elite
are being emphasized.

• Critical Perspective- Research, change, and innovation are the expected functions of
schools, yet institutions often resists change, which affect routine work tasks.