Education’s Role in Industrial and Meritocratic Societies
Industrial Society and the New Role of Education
The origins of education date back to the eighteenth century, with Rousseau’s Emile, or On Education. However, the sociology of education was not consolidated until the publication of Durkheim’s work and the initiation of a primitive sociological analysis of education. The final consolidation of the sociology of education occurred with the publication of Parsons’ article “The Classroom as a Social System” in 1959. In the U.S., what is called Dewey’
Read MoreSocial Functions of Schools: Impact on Work, Citizenship, and Society
Social Functions of Schools
Schools play a crucial role in society, fulfilling several key functions:
- Cultural Transmission and Socialization: Schools are instrumental in transmitting culture and socializing new generations, fostering social cohesion.
- Citizenship Training and Legitimacy: They contribute to the formation of responsible citizens and reinforce the legitimacy of the state or political system.
- Selection and Training for Work: Schools play a vital role in preparing individuals for the workforce,
Economic Globalization: Impact and Trends
What is Meant by Globalization?
Economic globalization is the creation of a global market that abolishes all trade barriers to allow the free movement of capital: financial, commercial, and productive. Globalization, then, would be like the stage of completion of the historical process expansion of capitalism, with two objectives: the free mobility of capital and the creation of a single global market.
What Comprises the Processes of Globalization from a Microeconomic Approach?
- The global integration
Evolution of Education: From Past to Present
School Development in Europe
- Claim for public education: compulsory and free.
The history of the school goes from Plato to Comenius or Pestalozzi, but finds more specific expression in Condorcet and Fichte.
For Luzuriaga, the three essential characteristics of unified education are: nationalization, socialization, and individualization.
- German teachers were pioneers in the movement to extend democratized unified education to primary school and the university.
- In France, it was also intended that the
Teacher’s Role: Mediator of Learning and Culture
The Evolving Role of the Teacher
The new functions now ask the teacher:
- Programming and teaching areas and subjects.
- Assessing the student learning process and evaluating the teaching process.
- Student mentoring, direction, guidance, and support for their learning in their educational process, in collaboration with families.
- Educational and vocational guidance of students, with special departmental collaboration.
- Attention to the intellectual, emotional, social, and moral development of students.
- Organization
Company Structure: Functions, Organization, and Models
Functions Organization
The organization is the function that aims to design a structure where all functions are defined to be performed by each person who is part of the company and its responsibilities and authority. In addition, the organization aims to order the set of relationships that may arise between the various tasks and between all areas of operation of the company.
Steps of the Role of Organization:
- Determine the levels of organization. Define who controls and executes tasks within the company.