CULTURE

&
EDUCATION
JUNRY M. ESPARAR
PhD Student
OBJECTIVES:

• Discuss the meaning, kinds and

characteristics of culture; and
• Clarify the concepts and meaning of culture
 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• Meaning of Culture
• Kinds of Culture
• Characteristics of Culture
• Components of Culture
• Culture Lag
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INTRODUCTION
• Culture and Education are INTERDEPENDENT.
• A society devoid of any culture will have no
definite educational organization.
MEANING OF
CULTURE
• socially transmitted behavior patterns.
• Good manners and good taste
• Complex whole which includes knowledge,
belief, art, morals, law, custom and
capabilities and habits (Taylor)
• set of learned behaviors, beliefs, attitudes,
values, and ideals that are characteristics of a
particular society or population (Ember,
1999)
• Man’s entire material civilization, tools,
weapons, clothing, shelter, machines and
even system of industry (Ellwood)
• The set of distinctive spiritual, material,
intellectual, and emotional features of society, or
a social group, and that it encompasses, in
addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of
living together, value systems, traditions and
beliefs. (UNESCO, 2002)
KINDS OF CULTURE
• Individual culture
• Communal culture
• National culture
• World culture
INDIVIDUAL CULTURE

• Personal traits and qualities.

• Social behavior
COMMUNAL CULTURE

• Customs, traditions, beliefs and styles of

living
NATIONAL CULTURE

• Distinct patterns of ideals, values, modes of

thoughts and behavior
WORLD CULTURE

• common values of life such as cooperation,

empathy, sympathy, social services, social
awakening and social sensitiveness
CHARACTERISTICS
OF CULTURE
• Acquired traits
• Distinct entity
• Transmission
• Utility
• Dynamism
ACQUIRED TRAITS

• Culture is sum total

of acquired traits.
DISTINCT ENTITY

• Different societies of the

world have different
cultural patterns
TRANSMISSION

• Cultural traits and patterns

are transmitted from
generation to generation.
UTILITY

• A culture is good if it
has utility to the
individual and to the
society.
DYNAMISM

• A culture changes and

grows with the change of
time.
COMPONENTS OF
CULTURE
COMMUNICATION COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL MATERIAL

❑Ideas ❑Norms ❑Tools

❑Knowledge ❑Mores ❑Medicines
❑Language
❑Beliefs ❑Laws ❑Books
❑Symbols
❑Values ❑Folkways ❑ Transportation
❑Accounts ❑Rituals ❑technologies
CULTURE LAG
• The degree to which certain aspects of
culture lag behind the changes in its other
related aspects.
• The vast difference between the material
and non-material culture is known as social
or cultural lag.
• A culture lag occurs "when the different
aspects of the society fail to adjust
themselves to changes effected in some of
its parts."
• “Education is the only
means to bridge the
cultural lag.”
• The role of a creative leader is not to have
all the ideas; it’s to create a culture where
everyone can have ideas and feel that
they’re valued. (Ken Robinson)
REFERENCES
Vega, A. et.al (2015). Social Dimensions of Education. Lorimar
Publishing, Inc. Adriana Printing Co., Inc.
Kumar, S. “SM -2, 5 Lesson 3 Culture and Education,” Retrieved: August 27,
2019 https://sol.du.ac.in/mod/book/view.php?id=1449&chapterid=1335