M1_Education Education is the transmission of culture and knowledge from one generation to another.

Education is the transmission of culture and knowledge from one generation to another

1. “Education”
Sociology IGCSE

4. OUTLINE_Education
Education is a branch of sociology which analyses the
institutions and organizations of education. It deals with the
relationships between education and other institutions of
society like the family, economy, religion and politics. It
studies the role of education in development as generally
provided by the state.
It examines social activities in educational institutions. It is a
sociological approach to explain educational phenomena.
Sociology of education deals with the relationship
between education and society as a whole.

5. Education as an agency of
socialization and social control
The social control function of the hidden curriculum

6. Education is an agency of secondary
socialisation.
-Agencies of secondary socialisation include
the media and peer groups as well as school.
Social expectations: the ways in which people
are expected to behave in particular social
situasion.
Social Control: any way in which people are
persuade or forced to behave in particular
ways.—sanctions and reward.

7. Formal Education and Informal
Education

8. Formal Learning
Learning the subjects listed in the school curriculum.
Formal = written down/ recorded
Examples:

9. Formal Education
Formal Education; takes place in classrooms,
where there is a syllabus and set content to be
taught and learnt.
Education that takes places within the formal
setting of the school. It involves learning a
specific range of subjects (the formal
curriculum), mastery of which is tested through
formal examinations.

10. Informal Education
Microlevel: coping strategies of
individual students and teachers;
Macrolevel: structure and culture of
schools
Takes place outside
classrooms at home or work
or through daily interactions.

11. Informal Learning
Learning values through everyday school life. This is also
called the “Hidden Curriculum” because…
Informal = not written down/ not recorded
Examples:
School uniform: students learn that it is appropriate
to dress in a certain way at certain times
Some lessons are very boring: students learn to…

12. Informal system of school
Unplanned experiencethat happen apart from or as a result of the
formal, planned curriculum of schools
Learning values through everyday school life. This is also called
the “Hidden Curriculum” because…
Informal = not written down/ not recorded
Examples:
School uniform: students learn that it is appropriate to dress in
a certain way at certain times
Some lessons are very boring: students learn to…

13. input organization output
feedback
Internal system
Structure: hierarchy, rules, regulations
Roles: administratiors, teachers, students
Informal system: hidden curriculum, climate,
power relations, unanticipated
consequences

14. I have learnt in school today…
Formal:
Informal:
I have learnt in this lesson today…
Formal:
Informal:

15. Formal and Informal Learning
Do you…
•understand what is meant by formal and informal learning
Can you…
•give examples of each