Family/Home as an Active and Informal Agency of Education Family/Home is a Social Institution

1. The Family
Presented By:
ATAUR RAHAMAN
Class: M.Ed. 2nd Sem.
Reg. No: EME-051702
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KERALA

2. The Family
THE ROLE IN KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND KNOWING

3. MAJOR SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
 The Family/Home
 Education/School
 Religion
 Mass Media
 Government as a Social
Institution

4. The Family
(An Active and Informal Agency)
“Family has the greatest impact
on human behavior”

5. Meaning of Family
‘Family’ is derived from the
Roman word ‘famulus’ which means ‘servant’.
Family is a primary unit of social system.
It consists of the husband, wife, and their
children.
In some old societies even servants were
included in the family.
Family is a key of social system.
Family is an institute of social system.
An institution is a part of social system

6. Definition of Family
Family is a social group characterized by
common residence, economic cooperation and
Reproduction and procreation of children.
G.P. Murdock
"A family is a group of persons united by
ties of marriage, blood, or adoption;
constituting a single household; interacting
and communicating with each other in their
respective social roles of husband and wife,
mother and father, son and daughter, brother
and sister, and creating and maintaining a
common culture.”
(Burgess and Locke, 1953)
G.P. Murdock

7. Types of family

8. Different Family
Structures and
Arrangements
Nuclear
Matrilocal
Three
Generation
Joint
Polyandry
Patrilocal Cenogamy Polygamy
Neolocal
Partriarchal
Matriarchal Equalitarian

9. Nuclear Family:
Consisting of Husband, Wife and
Children.
Joint/Extended Family:
Consist of married couple, their
parents, siblings, grandparents,
uncles, aunts, and cousins.
Three generation family:
There are representative of three
generations in the same family
Based on Size & Structure

10. Polygamy:
One man is married to two or
more women at the same time.
Cenogamy:
Two or more men mate with two
or more women in group
marriage.
One woman is married to two or
more men at the same time
Polyandry: On the basis of MARRIAGE

11. Patrilocal:
when the newly married couple lives
with the parents of the husband.
Matrilocal:
when the newly married couple lives
with the parents of the wife
Neolocal:
when the newly married pair maintains a
separate household and live by
themselves.
Based on Residence

12. Patriarchal:
Matriarchal:
Equalitarian:
when both father and mother share
in making decisions and are equal in
authority.
when the father is considered the
head and plays a dominant role.
Based on Authority
when the mother or female is the
head and makes the major decisions

13. Importance of Family in the
Education of the Child
A child gets his first lesson of speech
in the family.
Education of the child is not the
exclusive responsibility of the school.
The home is the foundation of all social organisations.
It is the first place or institution when we learn our
first lessons of living together, working together and
helping each other.

14. The child gets three importance helps from the family. They
are- 1. Affection, 2. Protection and (3) Socialization
Each member of family has an important role to influence
the personality of the child.
CONT...
Importance of Family in the Education of the Child
The impressions gained and the family environments are
indelible and remain for the whole life.
A healthy family environment leads to happy and
Harmonious Development.
A number to educationists have spoken very highly about
the role of family in the education of a child.

15. Different views of Philosophers and Thinkers
on The Role of The Family
Pestalozzi (1746 – 1827):
Home- a centre of love and affection, is the best
place and the first school of the child.
Froebel (1782 – 1852):
Mothers are the ideal teachers and informal
education given in home is the most effective and
natural.
Rousseau (1712 - 1778):
Education begins at birth and proper nurse is the
mother.

16. CONT...
Views of Philosophers and Thinkers on The Role of The Family
Mazzini (1805-1872):
Child learns the first lesson of citizenship
between the kiss of mother and care of father.
Madam Montessori (1870-1952) is so much a devotee of
home education that she named her schools as ‘Children's
House’. An atmosphere of neatness, love and affection
pervades in all these ‘Children's Houses.’

17. Important Educational Function of
Home/Family
Mental Development:
Mental development of the child is the second
important function of family. Like: Thinking, Feeling,
Reasoning, Judgement, Memory etc.
Emotional Development:
The influence of family greatly affects the emotional development of
the child. Like: Positive: sympathy, courage, affection and love etc.
Negative: fear, anger, jealousy, and worry etc.
Physical Development:
Providing environment and necessary facilities
for Proper physical development of the child.
Like: Regular physical exercises, Habits of
cleanliness, Good Food and rest etc.

18. CONT...
Important Educational Function of the Home/Family
Social Development:
It is the function of school to ensure the social
development of the child. Like: sympathy, love,
cooperation, tolerance, responsibility and
justice.
Religious Development:
Family is the only institution where religious
development of the child can be ensured. Like:
moral and ethical values develop him.
Development of Language:
The child learns his mother tongue in a natural
way in his family. Schools only reform it and
add to the vocabulary.

19. Others
Important Educational Function of the Home/Family
Development of Interests and Habits
Provision of Practical and vocational
Education
Providing suitable moral environment
for the Moral development of the child.
Providing opportunities for self
expression.
Providing learning equipment at the
proper time.

20. Need for Parent-Teacher Cooperation
From the point of view of Teachers
To seek maximum information from the parents about the
child to have a fuller understanding of him.
For getting help from the parents in the
regular attendance of the child.
For getting help in regular supervision of
home-work of the child.
For providing the child necessary equipment at the proper
time.
For carrying out various projects and plans and making them
realise their worthwhileness.

21. CONT...
Need for Parent-Teacher Cooperation
From Parents' point of view
They need information regarding the progress of
their children
They want sufficient notice regarding expenditure
on books etc.
They need information about problem situations
before they become serious.
They want schools to give assignments of the right
type to their children

22. Role of Teachers in Enlisting Parent-Teacher
Cooperation
The teacher should show considerable
patience and tact in dealing with parents.
He should not mind facing a rebuff or two at
the hands of the parents.
He should allow the parents to talk
voluntarily
He should make a thorough study of the child's problems, his abilities,
limitations and assets and discuss these with his parents
He should offer suggestions to the parents in a polite and
convincing way
He should impress upon the parent that he is also an active
partner in the education of the child.