SOCIETY AND CULTURE IS CRUCIALLY SIGNIFICANT TO THE OPERATION OF THE EDUCATION Amelia M.

Gano Gohang Elementary School Banaue, Ifugao Society, culture and education are linked together. Society itself is an educational system with set standards for the role and status of persons in it. Education should be relevant to the needs of society and society coordinates with education. Society cannot be formed without culture and vice versa. Culture provides knowledge as the information of education thus education is linked to culture and society depends much on the type of culture and education one receives. The school as an educational system is both a sub-society and sub-culture. It is a small society within a bigger society. It has its own culture, rules, regulations practices and traditions. The school and culture are very closely related. The school perpetuates culture transmission to the young. This is done through maintenance of values and attitudes. Worthwhile values and attitudes inculcated in the young contribute to the improvement of the culture. Through an improved culture the school draws out and develops for the betterment of the society. It is often maintained that the school must be relevant to society. Some people blame the school for providing the kind of training and preparation that is needed by society. The fact that there are many graduates of the school system who are unemployed or underemployed is cited as an example of irrelevance. This one example why the study of society and culture is important in our educational system is that the DepEd will provide the curriculum needed for the industrial and socio-economic development of the country and to decrease unemployment which is the number one problem of the society. As times change culture is being refined and revised with each generation through education as society undergo radical changes, the emphasis of value is indicated to the social pattern of the educational system for education is a reflection of our society.

WHY VALUES ARE NEVER THOROUGHLY UNDERSTOOD AND EFFECTIVELY INTERNALIZED? Amelia M. Gano Gohang Elementary School Banaue, Ifugao Values maybe defined as those standards to which group or society judges the desirability and importance of persons, ideas, actions, goals and other socio-cultural objects. It makes things desirable, attractive, worthy of approval and those which society in its experience has found satisfying and worthwhile. It is a shared conception or beliefs in what are considered contributory to the welfare of the group. They give meaning and significance to the totality of society and culture and influence the behavior of group member. Values is intimately related to the search for meaning in human life, that life is meaningful when man has found something capable of arousing his commitment to it, worth dying for since values are the soul of mans striving, having as their purpose to render human existence meaningful and to achieve the complete fulfillment of mans personality as individual and as a community. To discover the real essence of values we should never separate value from being. To separate value from being is to destroy value. It is that good to which man tends and vision which motivates man to action. The background why values are never thoroughly understood and effectively internalized is the Philippine society reflects a great variety of external forces, which emerge from cultural influence from the Malaysian, Hindu, Arabian, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and American. Interpersonal and social relationships revalue around blood ties, marriage and ritual kinship. Spanish and American culture composes the Filipinos Occidentalism. Spanish influence is evidently manifested in the Filipinos religious, economic and cultural orientations. The introduction of a democratic system of government and the popularization f education by the Americans in the Filipino way of life intensified the Filipinos preference for academic whitecollar occupations. They infused new ideals pertaining to education. Presently our curriculum included some of the American leftover values that confused our young ones even the old on which to follow. It is not only in the DepEd where the government exposed the Filipino mind to conflicting and value orientation but the Balik Bayan program launched by the government through the Department of Tourism, Mass Media, religious rituals and national business contribute a conflicting values which they got and learned from other countries. With these forces around him, the Filipino has certainly displayed a remarkable adaptability resulting in a many sided cultural heritage. The Filipino culture and values that was borrowed had always been Filipinized and in the process, it has gradually become distinctly Filipino. This has resulted in a dichotomous outlook oriental and occidental, which left behind confusion to the young for there was no clear delineation of which in the indigenous value of the Filipinos. So whatever value orientation the Filipinos will ultimately follow with greater vigor, it is time alone that will tell.

THE SCHOOL A TYPICAL SOCIAL INSTITUTION, ITS SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND HOW IT FUNCTIONS AS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION Amelia M. Gano Gohang Elementary School Banaue, Ifugao Socialization is the transmission of culture. It starts from infancy and consist of those processes by which the individual becomes a member of his group. This starts in the home, where the child socializes with the member of the family. As the child grows, he moves out from the house and finds its peers. This is done in the school as the school as an institution is looked upon as the molder and reshaper of the youth. It is also in the school where the child internalizes the values and norms of acceptable behavior and acquires the behavior patterns appropriate to his role in the society. Therefore good socialization of the youth determines the kind of individual the youths role in the society through the educational institution. The social structure of the social institution consist of: 1. Organizational structure this is how the social institution organized the people working in that institution according to their roles and status. Status is the social standing in that organization. Roles are the responsibilities. There the organization of the worker according to their roles and status is related to one another who are involved in that organization. 2. Curriculum Structure the commonality of the school curriculum throughout the country. This includes the methodology, content, strategies and objectives. 3. School sub-culture the patterns of behavior that are unique to a given culture. The wearing of uniforms and school ID to students faculty and staff is an example. The function of a school as a social institution 1. Parent surrogates the school is assuming other functions that used to belong to the home and church. With many working parents, the children often times have no one to turn when they are in trouble. Sometimes teachers perform the role of babysitting to some children. 2. Instructional function the school perform the fulfillment of a true and meaningful education through a certification. This is the process of stamping peoples real of approval that tell the educational level of people, and shows how well they have performed. 3. Transmission of culture the culture of society is passed from one generation to the other through socialization and interaction between students, teachers and the school administration. Through interaction students, develop their skills and knowledge of rational and critical thinking and appreciation of their own culture. 4. The school fulfills the equalizing function thus promoting social mobility. It gives opportunities to move the social ladder through education. In this way children are given equal opportunities to get ahead through education. 5. It also fulfills the integrating function. It aims to unit conflicting group in the society through exposure of members to different sub-cultures and to develop in them the importance of tolerance and integration or social relationships.

6. The school is expected to accomplish development goals set by the government of the society, thus, it becomes an implementing arm of the government. Through the teaching of values education induces people to conform to the norms of society. 7. The liberating function wherein It frees the individual from the bondage of dependence and ignorance. In this school build national spirit where everyone has gone to school, knows that the school transmit nationalism, patriotism, loyalty and freedom. 8. The school is responsible for socialization. Helping the pupils find their roles and status in society and learn the forms of behavior that go with the roles and status. The school provide the venue for the development of the social abilities of people to associate with other people, thus it establishes social relationship to others.