The document explores the relationship between schools and communities, emphasizing that schools serve as crucial social institutions that impart knowledge while engaging students in community life and democratic practices. It highlights the involvement of various stakeholders, including administrators, parents, and local political authorities, in fostering a collaborative environment for education and community interaction. Furthermore, it discusses service learning as a method to connect educational experiences with civic engagement, enhancing students' understanding of their community's dynamics.

2. Topic: Relationship
between school
and community:
political- local
self government,
institutions,
gramasabha
legislative
assembly.
submitted by : Saranya s p
Social science
Candidate code: 16914361011

3. INTRODUCTION
Community is a part of the society and education is the counterpart or
both the above mentioned elements. School in social institution where consciously
designed learning experiences are provided with the objectives of achieving social
aim at large, over a period of time. School is also defined as a subsystem of the
larger system of the society. It has to functionally coordinate with its immediate
environment, the community in which it is situated.
DATA COLLECTION
Relationship between school and community: political self-government
institution, gramasabha legislative assembly.
The community is meant to employ a wider grouping of people located within
fairly recognizable boundaries, and related to each other by socio-economic and
civic activities which produce oneness among them sufficient to develop a
recognizable identity as a group. The main group and agents involved in the
dynamic of the relationship between school and community are: school
administration, teachers, non-teaching staff, students and parents, governing bodies
and school board.
Beyond immediate proximity with the school are the local political authorities,
governmental bodies and political parties as well as other public, social and cultural

4. institutions. Parents are always in a constant touch with the school and are proper
channel of the procedure which is the part of the community.
Schools should be viewed not only as institutions that impart certain
knowledge and skills to students, but also as environments that socialize them. The
students at the school mentioned above have been exposed to many of the complex
issues that characteristics community life. Students have reported on local politics,
sat on the local school board and had a voice in making some school decisions.
When students are afforded the opportunity to have a major voice in there. Schools
and local communities, the exposure to democratic practices is amplified.
When the aims of education are thought of ion terms of market forces service-
learning serve as a variation of "school-to-work" or internship experience differs
from "s that place students in local business to acquire "real life" experienced in
work settings. In almost school to work or internship programme students are not
asked to look critically at community life. The fact that schools play important roles
within the life of local communities and that they are to varying degree democratic
institutions can serve as key elements within students educational experience.
Currier students get a chance to interact with members of a different
generation and come to understand how their school plays a functional role in the life
of the community. Student may learn about their local communities through oral
history projects photographic introspective and studies of the natural environment.
These project may or may not involve students in proving a direct benefit to their

5. communities. Oral history projects or photographics retrospectives may be sharped
with local community members, enriching the historical and cultural life of the
community. Service learning is a set of pedagogical practices that attempts to
synthesize and connect community service experience to special spheres of
knowledge for the dual purposes of mastering that support one's active participation
in democratic process. A serviced learning opportunity differs from "community
service" in that participants.
CONCLUSION
School is the social institution where consciously designed learning
experiences are provided with the objectives of achieving social aim at large,
over a period of time. Scholl is also defined as a subsystem of the society.
Schools are the local political authorities, governmental bodies and political
parties as well as other public, social and cultural institutions. Kinds of
relationships the students from with their peers, teachers, school leaders,
community members and the school culture as a whole.
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Teaching of social studies: A practical approach. j.c. Aggarwal relationship
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