This presentation explains education as one of the social institutions in a society. This includes the purposes and functions of education in the society.

1. EDUCATION

2. Transmission of
KNOWLEDGE

3. Good Interpersonal
Relationships

4. A place for the
contemplation of reality

5. PURPOSES
of Education

6. INTELLECTUAL
Purpose

7. INTELLECTUAL
Purpose

8. INTELLECTUAL Purpose

9. POLITICAL
Purposes

10. POLITICAL
Purposes

11. POLITICAL
Purposes

12. POLITICAL Purposes
To teach children the
basic laws of society

13. SOCIAL
Purposes
To socialize children
into various roles,
behaviors, and values
of the society

14. SOCIAL Purposes
To help solve
social
problems

15. SOCIAL Purposes

16. ECONOMIC
Purposes
To prepare
students for their
later occupational
roles

17. To select, train, and
allocate individuals into
the division of labor
ECONOMIC
Purposes

18. FUNCTIONS of
Schools
By Yin Cheong Cheng from the paper “Multiplicity
of School Functions in the New Century”

19. TECHNICAL/
ECONOMIC
Function
The contributions of
schools to technical or
economic development
and needs of the
individual, the
institution, the local
community, the society
and the international
community

20. HUMAN/SOCIAL
Functions
The contribution of schools to
human development and social
relationships at different levels of
society.

21. POLITICAL Functions

22. CULTURAL Functions
The contribution of schools to the cultural transmission and
development at different levels of society

23. EDUCATION
Functions

24. MANIFEST
Functions
Are defined as the open and intended
goals or consequences of activities
within an organization or institution

25. Major Manifest Functions
of Education in Society
SOCIAL CONTROL
SOCIALIZATION
SOCIAL PLACEMENT
TRANSMITTING CULTURE
PROMOTING SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL INTEGRATION
AGENT OF CHANGE
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26. SOCIAL CONTROL

27. SOCIALIZATION

28. SOCIAL
PLACEMENT
Schools are responsible
for identifying the most
qualified people to fill
available positions in
society

29. TRANSMITTING
CULTURE
As a social institution, education performs
a conservable function – transmitting the
dominant culture

30. PROMOTING
SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL
INTEGRATION
Transforming its population composed
of diverse ethnic and religious groups
into a society whose members share a
common identity

31. AGENT OF CHANGE

32. LATENT Functions
The hidden, unstated, and sometimes
unintended consequences of activities within an
organization or institution

33. Types of
Latent Functions
RESTRICTING SOME
ACTIVITIES
MATCHMAKING AND
PRODUCTION OF SOCIAL
NETWORKS
CREATION OF GENERATION
GAP
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34. FUNCTIONS of Schools by Yin
Cheong Cheng
TECHNICAL/ECONOMIC Function
POLITICAL Functions
HUMAN/SOCIAL Functions
EDUCATION Functions
CULTURAL Functions
MANIFEST and LATENT Functions

35. FUNCTIONS
of Schools
By Calderon

36. CONSERVATION Function
The school conserves and
preserves through its libraries
and other devices recorded
accumulated experiences of the
past generations.

37. INSTRUCTIONAL
Function
To pass on the
accumulated
experiences of
the past
generations to
the incoming
generations

38. RESEARCH
Function

39. SOCIAL SERVICE
Function
To render some kind of
social service in the
place where it is located

40. FUNCTIONS of Schools
by Calderon
CONSERVATION Function
INSTRUCTIONAL Function
RESEARCH Function
SOCIAL SERVICE Function