Understanding Culture, Society and Politics – Grade 11 Self – Learning Module

Quarter 2 – Module on Functions of Education in a Society

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 Understanding Culture
Society and Politics 11
Quarter 2
Self-Learning Module 5
Functions of Education
in a Society
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to Understanding Culture, Society and Politics, Grade 11 Self-

Learning Module on Functions of Education in a Society!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

For the Learner:

 Welcome to the Understanding Culture, Society and Politics Self-Learning
Module on Functions of Education in a Society!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

At the end of the lessons, you are expected to:

1. Describe the functions of education in a society
2. Evaluate how functions of education affect the lives of people in society
3. Justify education as a social equalizer.

PRETEST

Directions: Read the following questions and circle the letter of the correct
answer.
1. Functions are important to be performed as they make the societal whole. If each
function is working well, society attains progress. Who explained this?
A. Abraham Maslow C. August Comte
B. Herbert Spencer D. Karl Marx
2. According to Abraham Maslow, what was considered the highest form of human
need?
A. Love and belonging C. Self-actualization
B. Safety and security D. Self-esteem
3. Humans also tend to find boundless enthusiasm in learning outside the
classroom, what was the outcome of this learning?
A. experience C. knowledge
B. power D. comprehension
4. Why it is crucial for educational systems to adapt to the changing demands of
the environment?
A. To comply to the needed task C. To inform the public on
emergency situation
B. To efficiently capacitate individuals D. To gather information for
dissemination
5. What was the response done by the Department of Education in the educational
system as this Covid 19 pandemic strike our country?
A. Webinar about the pandemic C. Sulong Edukalidad Program
B. Swab Testing on the employees D. Learning Continuity Plan

RECAP
Directions. Match the universities and colleges founded in the Philippines in
Column A with the year founded in Column B. Write the letter of the correct answer
before each number.
Column A Column B
1. University of the Philippines a. 1611
2. Far Eastern University b. 1901
3. University of Sto. Tomas c. 1933
 4. Philippine Women’s University d. 1902
5. National University e. 1919
f. 1908

LESSON

FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION
The basic manifest function of education is to transmit knowledge from one
generation to another generation. The school teaches to the students the basic
information and skills like reading, writing, and speaking. Other functions are to
produce productive citizens and to develop self-actualization.
As a student’s progress in education, he/she becomes trained in various
technical skills or knowledgeable in different aspects. As British sociologist Herbert
Spencer explains, functions are important to be performed as they make the societal
whole. If each function is working well, society attains progress.

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

Productive Citizenry
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This highlights the importance of formal and non-formal education in the

development of oneself and the society. For instance, the Philippines recently
adapted the K-12 curriculum, which provides sufficient time for students to learn
and developed knowledge and skills that are demanded by the global community.

Being a productive citizen requires critical thinking. One must have the
ability to understand his or her duties and be able to respond to them by making
decisions. Through education, individuals are introduced to concepts concerning
democracy, power, inequality and the like. This promotes greater awareness in his
or her society. It encourages vigilance and participation. Educational attainment
does not only contribute to the individual’s success but also to the betterment of his
environment.

2. 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.
Moreover, it enables one to see your strengths and maintain them. It enables one to
determine weaknesses and adjust to them. This helps one reach full potential and
establish oneself as a whole.
According to Abraham Maslow, self-actualization is the highest form of
human need. It was defined as “to become more and more what one is, to become
everything that one is capable of becoming.”

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Through education, humans are empowered to experience and learn their

true capacities that lead to self-actualization. Humans also tend to find boundless
enthusiasm in learning outside the classroom, which is basically through experience.
With this, it becomes easier for them to socialize, to identify a career path, to create
self-identity, and the like. They will tend to have the ability to analyze, evaluate, and
decide on their own.

Here are the other functions of education

1. Building character.
2. Giving training in specific skills or the basic general education literacy.
3. Prepare people for occupational roles.
4. Producing patriotic citizens through lessons illustrating the country’s glory.
5. Developing the person’s ability to think rationally and independently.
6. Preserving the culture from one generation to the next.
7. Encouraging democratic participation by teaching verbal skills.
8. Enriching life by enabling the student to expand his /her intellectual and aesthetic
horizons.
9. Improving the health of the nation’s youth by providing physical exercise and
courses in hygiene.
10. Improving personal adjustment through personal counselling and such courses
as applied psychology, sex education, family living and drug abuse.
 Some of these educational functions may not be realized; nevertheless,
these are the intended functions of our educational system. Consequentially, it is
crucial for educational systems to adapt to the changing demands of the environment
to efficiently capacitate individuals.
Horace Mann a pioneer of American public schools in the 19th century,
famously called education the “great equalizer of the conditions of men.” But the
inverse is also true. Students who receive a poor education, or who drop out of
school before graduating, can end up on the wrong side of a lifelong gap in
employment, earnings, even life expectancy. The current situation in our society
now as the global pandemic COVID-19 strike the world is definitely a big challenge
to our educational system.

The Department of Education response in the basic education is through

the Learning Continuity Plan (LCP), which will be in effect School Year 2020-2021.
It includes key features on K-12 curriculum adjustments; alignment of learning
materials; various modalities of delivery; and corresponding teacher and
parent/guardian training for homeschooling. These modifications on certain policies
and practices were necessary steps in adapting to the “new normal” while still
remaining true to the framework of Sulong EduKalidad and Education Futures.
To be sure, schools being the performer of all these functions are exerting
all their level best to help realize the goals of the Philippine Educational System.

ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITY 1.

Directions: Are you familiar with the LOGOS of the different schools in the Division
of Pasig City? These are few of the many schools in our society that help gives
productive Pasiguenos. Try to name it one by one. Write the complete name of the
following schools on your notebook and their School Head as well.

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.

10.

WRAP-UP

Education plays an important role in the lives of every Filipinos. Being a productive
citizen requires critical thinking. One must have the ability to understand his/her
duties and be able to respond to them by making decisions. Through education,
individuals develop their capabilities to ______________________

________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________ .

VALUING

It is true that education builds the character of an individual and allows us to

connect the dots of the various pieces of information we gather and interpret based
on our own diaspora. Just as the face is the mirror of the heart, we will not forget
that the level of education develops the status of a nation.
In this time of pandemic, how will education continue to those Filipino family
members directly affected by this COVID 19? How will you prove then that Filipinos
are truly resilient and helpful even in these stages of quarantine? Write your views
that answers how education is truly a social equalizer?
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________.

POSTTEST

Direction: Identify what is being asked in the following statements. Locate the
answer inside the puzzle box and write it in the space provided.
__________ 1. The agency that managed and regulated the Philippine education
system as well as controls the creation and implementation of the curriculum.
__________2. This has been the core curriculum during the Spanish time and the
schools were used to spread Christianity.
__________3. The term used to identify the educated class and the social standing
and prestige during the Spanish colonization.
__________4. The date mandated by the Department of Education to start classes in
all public schools in the Philippines in the absence of pandemic.
__________5. When this country colonized the Philippines, education was focused on
the development of new social patterns that would prepare the nation for a self-
governing democracy.

S T V B M N Q W D E P E D P L N M F G H S W
R I Z A L L M A C A P A G A L N M N K L L V
W R T Y R E L I G I O N G B J F G H S D R G
F I R S T M O N D A Y O F J U N E C B N M J
W R T D F S B V N M I L U S T R A D O S Z K
U N I T E D S T A T E S O F A M E R I C A S
L U C A S B K P A S I G V B C N M Z X R T L
L E A R N I N G C O N T I N U I T Y P L A N

KEY TO CORRECTION

3. A 3. A
5. B 2. C 5. D 2. C
4. E 1. F 4. B 1. B
RECAP PRETEST
 10. SAGAD HS – Mrs. ANGELITA S. FLORAGUE
9. KAPITOLYO HS – Dr. ROLANDO JULIAN
8. SAN LORENZO RUIZ SENIOR HS – Mr. DENNIS T. ALEX
7. MANGGAHAN HS – Mrs. ANNALYN M. MACASINAG
TORRES JR.
6. SAN JOAQUIN-KALAWAAN HS – Mr. LAZARO P.
5. NAGPAYONG HS – DR. LORNA C. RODRIGUEZ
FABABAER
4. PASIG CITY SCIENCE HS – Mr. CHARLIE O.
3. STA. LUCIA HS – Mr. RICHARD T. SANTOS
2. BUTING SENIOR HS – Mrs. MONETTE P. VEGA
1. RIZAL HS – DR. GILBERT O. INOCENCIO
ACTIVITY A.

References

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Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics for Senior High School by: Ederlina D.
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ISBN: 978-971-8608-59-3
Exclusively published and distributed by: Educational Resources Corporations

Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics by: Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria-

Gonzales and Henry M. Custodio/DIWA LEARNING TOWN, Philippine Copyright
2016, Exclusively Published and distributed by: DIWA LEARNING SYSTEMS, INC.
Editorial, design and layout by University Press of First Asia, ISBN 978-971-46-09

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