WHAT HAVE YOU

LEARNED IN SCHOOL?
FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATION
At the end of the lesson, I am expected to
• 1. Define the meaning of education and its functions in the society
• 2. Explain the type of systems of education in the Philippine Context
• 3. Determine the differences and similarities of formal and non
formal education.
• 4. List the functions of education,
• 5. Appreciate the value and importance of education in our
community.
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EDUCATION
2 EDUCATION
in the Philippine Context

TYPES OF
3
EDUCATION
FORMAL VS. NON FORMAL SCHOOL
Formal education
refers to teaching that
happens in schools,
following an official
curriculum.
 Non formal
education refers
to education that occurs
outside the formal school
system. Non-formal education
is often used interchangeably
with terms such as community
education, adult education,
lifelong education and second-
chance education.
SPECIAL EDUCATION

•Refers to the education of persons

who are physically, mentally, and
emotionally, socially, and culturally
different from so-called “normal
individuals’’.
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FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATION
 The French sociologist Émile
Durkheim (1858–1917), established
the academic discipline of sociology,
characterized schools as
“socialization agencies that teach

SOCIALIZATION children how to get along with others

and prepare them for adult economic
roles”. Indeed, it seems that schools
have taken on this responsibility in
full.
Schools teach the
three Rs

But it also teach us norms

and values
 For a society to work,
functionalists say, people must
subscribe to a common set of
beliefs and values. As this
development was a goal of the
SOCIAL system of free, compulsory
education that developed in the
INTEGRATION nineteenth century.
 Beginning in grade school, students
SOCIAL are identified by teachers and other

PLACEMENT
school officials either as bright and
motivated or as less bright and
even educationally challenged.
Depending on how they are
identified, children are taught at the
level that is thought to suit them
best. In this way, they are
presumably prepared for their later
stations in life.
 SOCIAL Our scientists cannot make
AND CULTURAL important scientific
INNOVATION discoveries, artists and thinkers
cannot come up with great
works of art unless they have
been educated in the many
subjects they need to know for
their chosen path.
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EDUCATION AS
BASIC HUMAN
RIGHTS
 EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article XIV, Section 1, of the 1987 Constitution provides

that, "The State shall protect and promote the right of all
citizens to quality education at all levels, and shall take
appropriate steps to make such education accessible to
all."