GOOD DAY!

FUNCTIONS AND
IMPORTANCE OF
EDUCATION IN THE
UCSP 11
SOCIETY
 Specific learning Objectives:

1. define education;
2.trace and describe the educational
system of the Philippines;
3.give the functions and importance of
education in the society; and
4. evaluate how education functions and
affects society.
 WHAT IS
EDUCATION?
Education is the social institution
through which society provides its
members with important knowledge,
including basic facts, job skills, and
cultural norms and values (Macionis,
2012).
 WHAT IS
EDUCATION?
Education is the acquisition of knowledge,
habits, skills, and abilities through
instruction and training or through self-
activity. It is systematic training of the
moral and intellectual faculties of the
mind.
 EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

• Education in the Philippines is managed

and regulated by the Department of
Education, commonly referred to as the
DepEd.
• It controls the Philippine educational
system, including the creation and
implementation of the curriculum and
the utilization of funds allotted by the
national government.
 EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

• It also manages the construction of schools,

acquisition of books and other school
materials, and the recruitment of teachers
and staff.
• Before the Philippines attained
independence in 1946, the country’s
education system was patterned after the
educational systems of Spain and the
United States.
 EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

• During the Spanish time, the function of

education was inculcated moral and
religious values. Religion was the core
curriculum, and the schools were used
to spread Christianity. It mainly served
the upper classes; thus, education
symbolized “social standing and
prestige.” The educated class consisted
mostly of ilustrados.
 EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

• When the Americans came, education

was focused on the development of
new social patterns that would prepare
the nation for a self-governing
democracy. Public institution was
institutionalized to give every person
the education needed to participate in
a self governing democracy.
 EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPNES

• Today, the government of the

Philippines has been very active in
tapping the educational system for the
country’s development efforts. With the
adaptation of the K to 12 programs, it is
hoped that Philippine Educational
System is now responding to the
demands of the economy for national
development.
 TYPES OF EDUCATION
1. FORMAL EDUCATION- refers to the hierarchically structured,
chronologically graded educational system from primary school to the
university, including programs and institutions for full time technical and
vocational training.
Elementary Education involves Secondary Education, public schools and
compulsory, formal education private schools, is concerned primarily
primarily concerned with with continuing basic education of the
providing basic education, and elementary level and expanding it to
usually corresponds to a include the learning of employable,
traditional six grades or seven gainful skills, usually corresponding to
grades, and in addition, to four years of junior high school and two
preschool programs. years of senior high school.
 TYPES OF EDUCATION
1. FORMAL EDUCATION- refers to the hierarchically structured,
chronologically graded educational system from primary school to the
university, including programs and institutions for full time technical and
vocational training.
Tertiary Education Institutions Most institutions of higher learning Public universities are
of higher education may be are regulated by the Commission of all non-sectarian and
classified as either public or Higher Education (CHED). Colleges
private college or university,
offer a wide-range of
typically offer 1 or more specialized
and public institutions of programs while universities must programs, with
higher education may further offer at least 8 or more different English as medium of
be subdivided into two types: instruction. Public
undergraduate degree programs in
state universities and colleges
and local colleges and a wide array of subjects and at least universities are
universities. 2 or more graduate programs. government funded.
 2. Non-formal education
It refers to any As a concept, non-formal education emerged in
organized response to the world crisis in education identified by
educational activity
outside the Philip H. Coombs in 1967, who argued that the formal
established formal education system have failed to address the changing
system to provide
selected types of dynamics of the environment and the societies. The
learning to a skills that are needed to foster economic
segment of the development are lacking due to untrained labor force
population.
that is not able to access formal education. Non-
formal education enables a student to learn skills and
knowledge through structured learning experiences.
A student learns his/her values, principles, and beliefs
and undergoes lifelong learning.
 3. Informal education
It is a lifelong process It offers alternative learning opportunities for
whereby every individual the out of school youth and adults specifically
acquires from daily those who are 15 years old and above and
experiences, attitudes,
unable to avail themselves of the educational
values, facts, skills, and
knowledge or motor skill services and programs of formal education. It
from resources in his or reaches out to citizens of varied interests,
her higher environment. demographic characteristics, and
socioeconomic origins and status. Its primary
objective is to provide literacy programs to
eradicate illiteracy.
 SPECIAL EDUCATION
Refers to the education of persons who are
physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, or
culturally different from socalled “normal”
individuals, such that they require modification
of school practices to develop their potential.
Special education provides distinct services,
curricula, and instructional materials geared to
pupils or students who are significantly higher
or lower than the average or norm.
 FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION
1. PRODUCTIVE CITIZENRY
Education systems enable citizens to be productive
members of a society, as they are equipped with knowledge
and skills that could contribute to the development of their
society’s systems and institutions. This highlights the
importance of formal and non-formal education in the
development of oneself and the society. Consequentially, it
is crucial for educational systems to adapt to the changing
demands of the environment to efficiently capacitate
individuals.
 FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION
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 weakness and adjust to them. This helps
one reach full potential and establish oneself as a
whole.
FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION

Figure 1: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
1. Physiological needs - these are biological requirements for
human survival, e.g. air, food, drink, shelter, clothing, warmth, sex, sleep.
If these needs are not satisfied the human body cannot function optimally.

2. Safety needs - protection from

elements, security, order, law, stability, freedom
from fear.
3. Love and belongingness
needs -the need for interpersonal
relationships motivates behavior
 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

4. Esteem needs - which Maslow classified into two

categories: (i) esteem for oneself and (ii) the desire for reputation
or respect from others. Maslow indicated that the need for respect
or reputation is most important for children and adolescents and
precedes real selfesteem or dignity.

5. Self-actualization needs -
realizing personal potential,
selffulfillment, seeking personal growth
and peak experiences.
However, 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.
The primary function of education is the socialization of the new members of the
society. The late president Ramon Magsaysay aptly observed that “education is the
greatest equalizer of opportunities” for everybody. Other most important objectives of
education are:
1) Teaching basic skills, such as 5) Teaching the special aspects of the
culture, such as art, music, literature, drama,
reading, writing, and arithmetic.
science, technology, and sports.
2) Helping children develop skills in
6) Teaching vocational skills that help
abstracting thinking and problem
individuals enter the job market.
solving.
3) Transmitting the cultural heritage, 7) Training citizens for life within the
from which individual may develop political system of their society.
an appreciation of their society.
8) Preparing children to live long and form
4) Communicating to children the meaningful relationship with other human
basic value of the society. beings.
 Primary Education as a Human Right
• Primary education is essential in the early stages of human life.
Humans need education to enable them to adapt to the dictates of
their society. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) declare that education is a fundamental
human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights.
• Normative instruments of the United Nations and UNESCO lay down
international legal obligations for the right to education.
• Education is a powerful tool by which economically and socially
marginalized adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty
and participate fully as citizens.
WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE
EDUCATION?
 POST-TEST
1. What is the process of facilitating
learning?

A. Language
B. Listening
C. Reading
D. Education
 POST-TEST
2. Mary is in her seventh grade, attends classes
daily, and works hard to get good grades in her
eight subjects. What type of education is
evident?
A. Non-formal education
B. Formal education
C. Special education
D. None of the choices
 POST-TEST
3. Ryan will attend a seminar about the effects
of World War II in the Philippines next month.
What type of education is apparent?

A. Non-formal education
C. Special education
B. Formal education
D. None of the choices
 For Items 4-7: Read the following questions carefully. Choose the best
answer from the given choices.
A. Formal Education C. Non-Formal Education
B. Informal Education D. Special Education
4. It provides distinct services, facilities, curricula, and instructional
materials geared to pupils or students who are significantly higher
or lower than the average or norm.
5. Refers to the systematic and deliberate process of hierarchically
structured and sequential learning.
6. They are organized systematic education that provides selected
types of learning to a segment of the population.
7. It is a lifelong process of learning.
 For Items 8-11: Read the following questions carefully. Choose the best
answer on the given choices.
A. Education is self-empowerment C. Financial stability
B. Fosters participant democracy D. To complete the socialization
process
8. Education helps you gain sufficient academic qualification, knowledge
and skills to get a suitable employment with proper remuneration or
salary.
9. Literacy, which is the product of education, allows full participation of
the people in democratic process and effective voting.
10. Receiving a good education helps empower you, thus making you
strong enough to look after yourself in any given situation or condition.
11. The main social objective of education which involves the family and
school as agents of socialization.