Understanding
Culture,
Society and
Politics
MARILYN C. ESCOBIDO

Functions
of
Education
in the
Society

1. Define education;
2. Discuss the different types of education.
3. Explain the functions and importance of
education in the society; and
4. Assess learner’s level of mastery in learning
from the lesson through a short quiz.
Objectives:

What are your
concept about
education?

Education
a social institution through
which a society's children are
taught basic academic
knowledge , learning skills, and
cultural norms.

Education
The word education is derived from the latin
word “educare” which means “ to train”, to “to
rear or bring-up (a child).
Hence, it plays a significant role in transferring
culture and social norms among members of
society, in the process of training and various
modalities of educating.

Education – the act or process of imparting or
acquiring general knowledge, habits, skills, and
abilities through instruction and training or through
self-activity.
It is systematic training of the moral and intellectual
faculties of the mind. It is the process of transmitting to
the young, the vital cultural heritage of a group.

Why do you think
Education is
important in our
society?

Which type of
education are
you in? Formal
or Nonformal?
Why?

Formal
Non-formal
Informal
Types of Education
Republic Act No. 9155 known as the Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001 defines
the three types of education in the Philippines.

Formal
Educatio
n

1. Formal
Education
This refers to the hierarchically structured,
chronologically graded educational system
from primary school to the university,
including programs and institutions for full
time technical and vocational training.

Elementary Education
Involves compulsory, formal
education primarily concerned
with providing basic education,
and usually corresponds to a
traditional six grade programs.

Secondary Education
Secondary education, public schools
and private schools, is concerned
primarily with continuing basic
education of the elementary level and
expanding it to include the learning of
employable, gainful skills,

Tertiary Education
Institutions of higher education may
be classified as either public or
private college or university, and
public institutions of higher education

Kindergarte
n/Elementar
y
Levels of Basic Education
Tertiary
Secondary

Non-
formal
Education

Non-formal
Education
-any organized, systematic educational
activity carried outside the framework of
the formal system to provide selected type
of learning to a segment of the population.
e.g. ALS

Informal
Education

Informal
Education
– lifelong process of learning by which
every person
acquires and accumulates knowledge,
skills, attitudes, and insights from
daily experiences at home, at play, and
from life itself. e.g. Zumba/fitness
class, sports, etc

Functions
of
Education
in the
Society

Educational Institution- refers to the established normative system of
providing and receiving education and training. The schools and centers for
skills training and development are the organizations responsible for this
institutional function and purpose.
1. Knowledge Acquisition – schools lay down the foundations
for structured learning and providing students with a range of
learning tools, materials, and interactive learning experience.
2. Skills Development – schools bring out from the students
their hidden potentials, skills, and talents that are developed
through sport and training, and participation in co-curricular and
extracurricular activities.

3. Values Formation- schools mold the character of students
by imbibing in them the values integrated in the courses or
subjects that they take up, as well as the core values that the
school promotes though disciple and habit.
4. Socialization- schools offer a new environment, a second
home, a second family with peer groups, a second parents with
teachers. The student learns to establish rapport, relations, and
attains status recognition.

5. Life Preparation – schools prepare the
student for a life of independence, self-
reliance, and competence for an occupation or
a job. Students learn about task
responsibilities and hardship in the pursuit of
goals.

FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION

FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION
INDIVIDUAL
1. Development
of inborn
potentialities
2. All around
development
3. Preparing for
the future
SOCIETY
1. Development of
social and moral
value.
2. Providing
opportunity or
equality.
3. Social change
and control
NATION
1. Inculcation of civic
and social
responsibility.
2. Training for
Leadership
3. Total national
development
4. National Integration-
Education trains
people for unity, for
democracy and not for

The functions being played by education towards
individual, society and nation are as follows:
1. Development of inborn potentialities- Education helps the
child to develop the inborn potentialities of child providing scope to
develop.
2. All around development – Education aims at the holistic
development of child-physical, mental, social, emotional, and
spiritual.
3. Preparing for the future – after the completion of education
the child can earn its livelihood getting proper education, which
has productivity. The education should be imparted according to
the own interest of the child.

1. Development of social and moral value- animality can be
changed with moral education. It teaches the moral value and
social value like cooperation, tolerance, sympathy, love
affection, respect towards elder,
helping the poor.
2. Providing opportunity or equality- education teaches us to
give equal opportunities in all aspects irrespective of caste,
creed, color, sex and religion.
3. Social change and control – the old traditions, customs are
preserved and transmitted with the situations, which are ever
changing. Education helps to walk with the development of
science and technology.
SOCIETY

1. Inculcation of civic and social responsibility- Education
helps to make rising generation to understand its rights and
duties as citizens of a democratic country.
2. Training for Leadership- the leadership quality of individual
is developed when he participates in all spheres of social,
political, religious, and educational activities.
3. Total national development- Education helps for bringing by
developing this all aspects i.e. social, cultural, spiritual, moral,
educational, etc.
4. National Integration- Education trains people for unity, for
democracy and not for dictatorship.
NATION

Get ¼ sheet of paper

1. Functions of education bring out
from the students
their hidden potentials, skills, and
talents?

2. Institutions of higher education
may be classified as either public or
private college or university, and
public institutions of higher education

______3. One of functions of education prepares the
student for a
life of independence, self-reliance, and competence
for an occupation or a job where
they learn the hardship in the pursuit of goals?

_____4. Any organized, systematic
educational activity carried outside the
framework of the formal system to provide
selected type of learning to a segment of
the population.

____5. lifelong process of learning by
which every person
acquires and accumulates knowledge,
skills, attitudes, and insights from
daily experiences at home, at play, and
from life itself.

checking

Skills Development
1. Functions of education bring out
from the students
their hidden potentials, skills, and
talents?

2. Institutions of higher education
may be classified as either public or
private college or university, and
public institutions of higher education

______3. One of functions of education prepares the
student for a
life of independence, self-reliance, and competence
for an occupation or a job where
they learn the hardship in the pursuit of goals?
LIFE
PREPARATION

Non-formal
Education
_____4. Any organized, systematic
educational activity carried outside the
framework of the formal system to provide
selected type of learning to a segment of
the population.

Informal
Education
____5. lifelong process of learning by
which every person
acquires and accumulates knowledge,
skills, attitudes, and insights from
daily experiences at home, at play, and
from life itself.

As a student and a member of
the society, you have your own
roles and functions to be
performed. Make your own
pledge of commitment on how
to contribute in your own
community to help the local
government units perform
their roles and functions. Use
separate sheet for your
answers. MY PLEDGE OF
COMMITMENT

Answer the following questions. Use separate
sheet for your answer.

Productive Citizenry
Education systems enable citizens to
be productive members of a society, as
they are equipped with knowledge and
skills that could contribute to the
development of their society’s systems
and institutions

Self Actualization
Education develops one’s sense of
self. As a huge part of the discovery
process of oneself, education
encourages having the vision to
become self-actualized

Maslow’s
hierarchy
of needs
Self
Actualiz
ation
Esteem
Needs
Love and
Belongingness
Needs
Safety Needs
Physiological Needs

Physiological needs
These are biological requirements for
human survival, e.g. air, food, drink,
shelter, clothing, warmth, sex, sleep. If
these needs are not satisfied the
human body cannot function optimally.

Safety needs
protection from elements,
security, order, law, stability,
freedom from fear

Love and belongingness
needs
the need for interpersonal relationships
motivates behavior Examples include
friendship, intimacy, trust, and
acceptance, receiving and giving
affection and love. Affiliating, being
part of a group

Esteem needs
Maslow classified into two categories:
(i) esteem for oneself (dignity,
achievement, mastery, and
independence) and (ii) the desire for
reputation or respect from others (e.g.,
status, prestige).

Self-actualization
needs
Realizing personal potential,
self-fulfillment, seeking
personal growth and peak
experiences.

Alvin Toffler, an American futurist,
is popularly quoted for having said
“The illiterate of the twenty-first
century will not be those who
cannot read and write, but those
who cannot learn, unlearn and
relearn”. This ,ark the highlights of
the extensive journey that occurs
in the field of education.

Give specific
scenarios/examples/ways on
how education helps an
individual to attain its need on
each hierarchy. You will be
guided by answering the
questions

How education
helps in attaining
self-actualization?
How education helps
in establishing self-
esteem
How can education helps to
feel love and belongingness?
How can education helps in attaining
safe and security?
How can education helps in sustaining
physiological needs?

Activity

Why education is essential for every society and
individual

THANK
YOU!