AGENCIES OF EDUCATION,FORMAL AGENCIES OF EDUCATION, INFORMAL AGENCIES OF EDUCATION,INFORMAL AGENCIES OF EDUCATION , FAMILY, AND EDUCATIONAL FUNCTIONS OF FAMILY,PEER GROUP , AND ROLE OF PEER GROUPS, EDUCATIONAL ROLE OF COMMUNITY, THE MASS MEDIA ,E, AND EDUCATIONAL FUNCTIONS OF MASS MEDIA.

1. AGENCIES OF EDUCATION

2. MEANING OF EDUCATIONAL AGENCY
• An agency of education is a specialized
institution or organization that directly
or indirectly exercises an educational
influence on the child. This include both
formal and informal institutions such as
the school, the church, the library, the
newspapers, the magazines, the
exhibitions, the museums, the
planetariums, the radio, the cinema, the
television etc.

3. CHARACTERISTICS OF EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES
It exercises some educational influence
on individual.
It is directly or indirectly concern with
the education of youngsters.
It include both formal as well as informal
social institutions.
It concerned with the transmission of
cultural and social heritage of the society.
It include both specialized as well as non-
specialized institutions.

4. TYPES OF EDUCATIONAL
AGENCIES

5. Classification on the basis of type of
education provided by the agency
a) Formal agency of education : This include
institutions deliberately set up by the society
with specific objective of carrying out the
various functions of education. Eg : the
school , the church, the museum.
b) Informal agencies of education : This include
institutions which perform educational
functions just incidentally and indirectly. Eg:
the family, the peer group, youth clubs etc.

6. • Classification on the basis of role
played by the agency:
a) Active agencies of education : There is
personal interaction between
educator and educand. Eg: Home,
school, religious institutions, society.
b) Passive agencies of education : They
affect the individual but they are not
affected by them.Eg;library, radio,tv
etc.

7. • Classification on the basis of
monitory intention of the agency:
a) Commercial agencies of education :
They have their objective of
business in view but they also
provide different kinds of education.
Eg: News paper, radio, television
etc.
b) Non-commercial agencies of
education :They are non-profit
service oriented educational
agencies created for social welfare
and social good .Eg: Club, social
welfare centers, scouting, girl
guiding etc.

8. AGENCIES OF INFORMAL
EDUCATION

9. 1. THE FAMILY
• The family is the oldest, basic and
fundamental unit of human society . It is
regarded as the primary agent of education .
The basic purpose of the family is to provide a
loving safe environment for children.

10. Educational functions of the family
1. It provide early physical training
2. It socializes the child
3. It acculturates the child
4. It helps in character formation
5. It supports mental development
6. It imparts spiritual and moral education
7. It can collaborate with school
8. It prepares ground for future learning

11. 2. THE PEER GROUP
• A peer group is a group of individuals having
more or less same age and status . It is a group
of friends that a certain person will try to
impress to get their bond, social status, and
interest.

12. Educational role of the peer group
1. It socializes the individual
2. It helps to develop balanced personality
3. It facilitate mental development
4. It favours physical development
5. It inculcate social values
6. It develops leadership qualities
7. It foster talents and creative abilities
8. It acculturates

13. 3.THE COMMUNITY
• The term community refers to a group of people
living together in an area having common ways
of working and common ideals to achieve.
Community is an informal and active agency of
education which casts lasting influence on the
educational development of the individual.

14. Educational role of community
1. Provide educational facilities to children through
institutions.
2. Formulate aims and objectives of education.
3. Socializes the child.
4. Helps for cultural development.
5. It encourages the vocational development of the
learner.
6. They encourages and co-ordinates the educational
efforts of various parallel agencies .

15. 4. THE MASS MEDIA
• The media used for the masses to communicate
something are called as mass media . They are
sources of and news such as newspapers,
magazines, radio, television, cinema, and internet
that reach and influence large number of people.

16. Educational functions of mass media
1. Television can serve a powerful medium for
imparting education through educational
broadcasting.
2. The world wide web make interaction between
the teacher and the taught sitting in remote
places.
3. Helps in intellectual, social, emotional, and
aesthetic development.
4. Helps children to enrich their imagination, ignites
their creativity, encourage them to think
divergently .

17. 5. Helps to transmitting cultural values from one
generation to another.
6. Helps to develop social and political values like
feeling of brotherhood, oneness, cooperation,
democratic values etc.
7. Newspapers plays their educational function by
providing up-to-date information about many
areas and also by intimating information about the
opportunities of education

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BY
JAZIL PUTHUR