FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION

1. FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATION
DR. MAHESWARI JAIKUMAR.
maheswarijaikumar2103@gmail.com

2. • Education has three main
functions.
• They are as follows:
1. FUNCTION TOWARDS
INDIVIDUAL.
2. FUNCTION TOWARDS SOCIETY.
3. FUNCTION TOWARDS NATION.

3. FUNCTION TOWARDS
INDIVIDUAL
FUNCTION TOWARDS INDIVIDUAL
EDUCATION AS GROWTH
EDUCATION AS DIRECTION
PREPARATION FOR
RESPONSIBILITIES OF ADULT LIFE

4. EDUCATION FOR
GROWTH
• Every learner is immature at
the beginning.
• He is to be trained
deliberately for adult life.

5. • Education deliberately &
systematically influences a
mature influence of the
teacher through instruction,
discipline and harmonious
development.

6. • The harmonious development
includes development of in
terms of physical, intellectual,
aesthetic, social and spiritual
powers of human being,
according to the needs of the
society.

7. • The cardinal factors
responsible for the growth of
a child are:
1. DEPENDANCE.
2. ADAPTABILITY.

8. DEPENDENCE
• Every learner has a capacity to
grow and develop.
• This development is possible
because the child has qualities
of dependence upon
adaptability.

9. • The learner depends upon
other mature persons,
instructors for the satisfaction
of his physical needs.

10. • This dependence decreases as
the child grows older.
• Dependence enables children
to inculcate qualities like
obedience and co-operatrion.

11. ADATABILITY
• Every individual learns to
adjust & adapt himself to his
environment.
• This virtue is primarily learnt
in family.

12. • Adaptability is also learnt
from the individual’s own
experience in the family & in
the neighbourhood.

13. • This virtue helps the
individual with necessary
power for development of
habits and attitudes to
manage his future
circumstances.

14. • Education provides such
guidance through a pre
planned programme of
education.

15. • Educational programme will
modify and re-direct the
instincts of the child to
desirable ends to lead a
worthwhile progressive and
harmonious growth.

16. EDUCATION AS DIRECTION
• Direction is fixation of the
activity into a right response
by elimination of unnecessary
and confusing movements.

17. • Every learner is gifted with an
innate capacities and powers.
• His physical & social
environment provides the
learner with stimulus for
activity.

18. • In the beginning as the
learner acts in response to the
stimulus in an immature way,
much of his constructive
energy is wasted.

19. • This wastage can be avoided if
the learner is properly
directed towards an objective.
• Education provides this sense
of direction and activities of
the learner becomes
purposeful.

20. TYPES OF DIRECTION
• There are two types of
direction:
1. External & internal direction.
2. Personal & impersonal
direction

21. EXTERNAL & INTERNAL
• The immediate environment
which provides the learner
with a stimulus for his activity
is external.

22. • Responses to the stimuli
which proceed from his
internal tendencies are
internal.

23. PERSONAL & IMPERSONAL
• Personal direction includes
ridicule, disapproval &
punishment. It refers to
physical control which is not
educative.

24. • Impersonal direction is
important as this direction is
bound to appeal to the
learner’s mind and heart.
• In this context the teacher has
to set a good example to
follow.

25. • This direction is corrective it
has potentials to have
corrective effect.

26. ROLE OF A TEACHER -
DIRECTION
• The teacher should consider
the external factor of
environment & the innate
tendency of the learner.

27. • Direction will imply growth
from within, brought about by
the co-operation of the pupil
and the teacher.

28. • Reconstruction & re-
organization of experience
adds to meaningful
experiences and increases the
ability to direct subsequent
experiences.

29. FUNCTIONS
TOWARDS SOCIETY

30. FUNCTION TOWARDS
SOCIETY
FUNCTION TOWARDS SOCIETY
SOCIALIZATION
RE CONSTRUCTION OF
EXPERIENCES

31. • Education is a powerful tool
to bring in positive
socialization process and has
the ability to reconstruct the
life experiences for the
growth of the society on the
whole.

32. SOCIAL FUNCTION
• Man is a social animal.
• An individual is the sum total
of his interactions with his
social environment.

33. • The elders of the society pass
on their experiences,
interests, findings,
conclusions, traditions and
attitudes to the younger
generation.

34. • All these have a profound
influence on the growth and
development of the younger
generations.

35. • In this manner the continuity
of the societal function is
successfully maintained.

36. RE-ORGANIZATION OF
EXPERIENCES
• As growth is a continuous
process, education is also a
continuous process
throughout an individual’s
life.

37. • Education provides the
learner with rich resources to
shape his life, personality,
character, outlook and his
experiences and interaction in
the society.

38. • Thus education helps the
learner in re-constructing and
re-organizing of the individual
and societal life.

39. FUNCTION TOWARDS
NATION
FUNCTION TOWARDS NATION
CIVIC & SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
TRAINING FOR LEADERSHIP
EMOTIONAL INTEGRATION
NATIONAL INTEGRATION

40. • Education has potentials to
indirectly influence and
support the state’s/nation’s
functioning by means of
inculcating civic sense among
the learners & thereby paves
way for emotional and
national integration.

41. CIVIC & SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
• Promoting the civic
responsibility is considered to
be the most important
function of education.

42. • True education promotes
learners to understand their
rights and duties as individual
citizens.
• The very existence and progress
of a nation depends on the
educational system of the state.

43. TRAINING FOR LEADERSHIP
• Efficient functioning in all the
spheres such as social,
political, religious, and
educational activities depend
on the quality of education.

44. • Therefore the function of a
good educational system is to
develop such qualities among
the learners so as to promote
a comprehensive
development of the individual
and the state.

45. EMOTIONAL INTEGRATION
• Educational system aims at
promoting unity in diversity,
in terms of unity in the areas
of religion, language, diet,
dress, habit and physical
environment.

46. NATIONAL INTEGRATION
• True education aims to raise
individuals to break down
narrow prejudices of caste,
community, region, and to
look to a broad national
outlook.

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