The document defines education and discusses key aspects of education including intention, environment, and commitment. It also defines a school as an institution designed for students to learn under teacher supervision. Schools have characteristics like an administrator, grade levels, and teachers providing instruction. The functions of a school include identifying and providing for student needs, guidance, development, and promoting equality.

1. LECTURE TWO
EDUCATION 1A
MR N.G MASHISHI
13-16/02/2012

2. A. EDUCATION DEFINED
ONE
1 - Education refers to any act or experience that has
a formative effect on the mind, character or physical
ability of a person

3. TWO
2 – any activity designed to educate, instruct or to
impart knowledge or skill (formally or informally)
- knowledge acquired by learning and instruction
- the gradual process of acquiring knowledge
- the profession (teaching)
- the result of good upbringing (correct behaviour

4. THREE
3 - Education is about development and growth
aimed for the future.
Important aspects of education
I. Intention – is goal driven, used to achieve
something (learning)
II. Environment – according to Dewey, “we never
educate directly, but indirectly by means of the
environment. He went on to say ‘whether we
permit chance environments to do the work, or
whether we design environments for the purpose
makes a great difference’.

5. …CONTINUED
The physical environment – the shape of the
room, the way chairs are laid out, lighting and heating
will influence the way we feel about the activities we
are engaged in. In turn, our social relationships will
affect the way we view these things.
III. Commitment - those who educate do not act in a
value free way. For something to be referred to as
education. Whether it takes place in the classroom or
the canteen, it must be informed by certain values.

6. …CONTINUED
(Education vs. Indoctrination)
Education as compared to indoctrination, embraces
a commitment to:
• the promotion of well-being
• truth
• democracy
• fairness and equality

7. …CON’T
These values should inform both the content of
conversations and encounters as well as our
behaviour and relationships as educators.
Teaching which induces a slave mentality or a sense
of importance is not education at all but an attack on
the minds of people.

8. B. SCHOOL
• Is an institution designed to allow and encourage
students (or pupils) to learn under the supervision of
teachers.
• The process of being formally educated at a school
(first built in 1932)
• a building where young people receive education
• The period of instruction in a school, the time period
when school is in session (stay after school, etc)

9. …CON’T
• Is an institution designed to allow and encourage
students (or pupils) to learn under the supervision of
teachers.
• A school of thought is a collection or group of
people who share common characteristics of
opinion or outlook of a
philosophy, discipline, belief, social movement or
cultural movement.

10. …CON’T
• A group of fish that stay together for social reasons
or a group swimming in the same direction.
• An educational institution founded in 1900
• Formal schooling exists in a classroom setting where
a teacher provides curriculum according to an
expected plan of what must be learned

11. …CON’T
• The purpose of classroom teaching is not to prepare
a child for a specific job, but instead to prepare a
child to develop critical reasoning and thinking skills
that he will use in further academic and career
pursuits. The skills learned at school are vital for
survival in the world.

12. …CON’T
• School learning can continue for many years if a
child decides to pursue higher education
• Colleges and universities provide specialized
additional teaching and learning which is
specialized (e.g. law, education, etc.)

13. CHARACTERISTICS OF A SCHOOL
• Has an assigned administrator/principal responsible
for all personnel action
• Has a unique identification code assigned by the
DOE (school code).
• Provides the primary educational services to
differentiated grades ranging from 0 – 12.
• Has one or more professional teachers to provide
instruction in the form of curriculum (open &
hidden)

14. FUNCTIONS OF A SCHOOL
 The education Act defines the function of a school
and the role of those involved as:
• Identification of, and provision for the children’s
educational needs including those with disability
and other special needs
• Access to appropriate guidance
• Promotion of their moral, spiritual and personal
development and provision of health education.
• Promotion of equality of opportunity.