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topic online assignment in RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY

1. Topic:-




RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY









Saranya.S.Kurup

2. Social Science



INTRODUCTION

Today, educationalist have come to realise that the immediate community is a
wonderful curriculum laboratory providing extremely, dynamic, interesting and real life
opportunities for learning. The School and Community must work together in the process
of education in a co-operative and collective quest. In the absence of this living, dynamic
relationship between the two education will be unreal. Unable to make any abiding
impact on the mind and character of children. The life of the community is powerfully
influenced by social purposes the techniques of production. Knowledge of culture not
bale to keep pace with these changes and adjust its programes to them the school
becames an out dated, backward looking agency.


Types of community Resources

Michaelis (1972) listed following community resources in his social studies for children
in a democracy.
Study or field trips (Industries Museums)
Field Studies (Housing, Pollution, Transportation)
People to interview (Travelers, Police)
Resource visitors (Panel individuals)
Service and other organisations (Red cross club)
Service projects (Safety, clean up)
Local current events (Campaigns, drives)

3. Recreational resources (Parks, Museums)
School Resources (Collections, teachers)
Publications and visual media (Newspapers, bulletins)
Television, Radio (Travel programs, news)

Methods of utilizing community resources

There are basically two ways.
1. Taking the school to the community
2. Bringing community to the school

1. Taking the school to the community
School can be brought to the community
a. Field Trips:-
Field Trips to places of civic, cultural, geographical and social places are very
helpful in integrating class room instruction, stimulating imagination and learning by
providing sensory perceptions, seeing life vividity learning to the art of living with others
and expanding emotional and intellectual horizons.
b) Community service :-
Which includes cleanliness of the community attending on the sink, social service
infairs, planting of trees, digging of manure, pots, making of drains etc. All these
activities help in developing a sense of dignity of labour, fellow-feeling etc.
c) Social survey clubs :-

4. Social survey clubs should be organised in schools which could under take to
investigate some of the crying needs and problems of the surrounding are. Eg: The
condition of roads, the percentage of literacy, the drainage of the village street or town
etc. The study of the community will help much in the development of a child.
2. Bringing community to the school
The following ways are used to bring the community to the school.
a) Celebration of festivals
Attempts should be made to celebrate national, local, international days, birthday
of eminent personalities etc. The school premises so that the parent may also be brought
in to close content with the activities of the schools. Some of these festivals of which
many peoples gather provide opportunities of social service to the students and teachers
and thereby help in a good relationship between the school and community.
b) The school as a social Recreational and Cultural centre
Most of the village schools are common meeting place for villagers especially for
planning and conducting social service activities. School ground may provided to local
community for playing and for older peoples for evening discussions.
c) Adult Education centers :-
The schools should become centres of adult education both in rural and urban
areas.
d) School Library :-
Efforts should be made to extend the service of the library to the community by
providing books to parents, availing library hours after and before school hours, or by
issuing books to secretary of old students association who act as librarian.

5. e) Lecturers by resource persons :-
People as well as books are desirable sources of information and inspiration. In
every community no matter how small or isolated, the scores of person of rich and varied
background who can “open doors” to vivid learning experiences. these include the
bankers, the doctor, the engineer, the merchant, the artist, the sarpanch, the municipal
commissioner, the editor. These are community is human resources which can be utilised
by the enterprising teacher to enrich and vitalise the school programme, these
distinguished men are resource persons who can explain to students their own important
role in the community & services rendered by them to community in the different
directions. Important persons from other towns, states and countries can also be invited to
create better understanding of different types of people. This will help students identity
themselves with other people and their problems.
f) Parent - Teachers Association :-
There should be a parent teachers association in the school to co-operate in the
common task of giving better education to child meeting with parents of particular class,
inviting parents to witness training displayed by children and participating parents in
school programmes will help in bring to community to school parents may be associated
in the management of schools also.

g) Exhibitions :-
On occasions like School day an exhibition may be arranged for the benefit of the
students and the public.
h) Career conferences :-

6. Specialists in different fields may be selected from amongst the parents and their
talks arranged o the various apects of their occupations.
i) Educational conferences :-
Educational conferences should be organised in which parents, teachers and
representative of the education department participate. These conference help exchange
of thoughts opinions, experiences, stock taking of the past and plan for future.

Advantages of utilising community
Resources in social studies

1. Natural way of importing education
A study of the community is useful for imparting education in a natural way.
Proceeding from the known to the unknown and from the near to the distant it is natural
process of establishing relationship.
Particularly suitable to young students.
2. Growth of new interest
A servey of the community and a study of its problems, provide opportunities for
the growth of new interest which are natural and creative, not imposed from outside but
developed from within.
3. Choice of vocation
Study of community offers a wide choice of vocation to school children who
observe various groups of people in to the community engaged in different economic
activities for the welfare of the community. This observation creates interest and urge in

7. the minds of some boys to explore industries, means of transport and communication,
trade, commerce, business, agriculture and so on in their adult life. Some girls may feel
inclined to home nursing, preparation and distribution of food teaching or religion. Thus,
a choice of vocation for adult life may be made by students right from the primary or
secondary school stage.
4) Social use of leisure
Interested in the community outside the school, the student would spend his spare
time in the study of some specific portion of the community life. Caarying this interest
beyond school days, he may acquire a technique for using the increased leisure at his
disposal creatively and usefully.
5) Development of skill and attitudes
After studying the problems of one’s community. One may think of development
of ones city, town or countryside. The students may grow into useful citizens, anxious of
tackling social problems. A sense of security may give a sense of pride in ones
community past achievements and a reasonable degree of faith in its future possibilities

8. CONCLUSION

The community can be a social studies laboratory where geographic historical,
economic and other concepts concrete, seeble, and tangible resources which are
extremely dynamic interesting and meaningful for the teaching of social studies. A school
can not remain an ivory tower. If we are to have “School without walls” extensive and
critical use must be made of community resources.


REFERENCE

Teaching of social studies
N.R. Samena Mishra
Social studies in the class room trends and method
P.K. Sudheesh Kumar
P.P. Noushad