Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through
which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one
generation to the next.
Generally, it occurs through any
experience
that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts. In
its narrow, technical sense, education is the formal process by which
society deliberately transmits its accumulated
knowledge,
skills,
customs and
values from one generation to another, e.g., instruction in schools.
Purpose of schools
Examples of the purpose of schools include,
develop reasoning about perennial questions, master the methods of
scientific inquiry, cultivate the intellect, create positive change
agents. The purpose and goal of the school is to teach pupils how to
think.
Curriculum
In formal education, a
curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a
school or
university. As an idea,
curriculum stems from the
Latin word for
race course, referring to the course of
deeds and experiences through which
children grow to become mature
adults. A curriculum is prescriptive, and is based on a more general
syllabus which merely specifies what topics must be understood and to what level to achieve a particular grade or standard.
An
academic discipline
is a branch of knowledge which is formally taught, either at the
university, or via some other such method. Each discipline usually has
several sub-disciplines or branches, and distinguishing lines are often
both arbitrary and ambiguous. Examples of broad areas of academic
disciplines include the
natural sciences,
mathematics,
computer science,
social sciences,
humanities and
applied sciences.
Educational institutions may incorporate
fine arts
as part of K-12 grade curriculums or within majors at colleges and
universities as electives. The various types of fine arts are music,
dance, and theater.
Education theory
Education theory
can refer to either a normative or a descriptive theory of education.
In the first case, a theory means a postulation about what ought to be.
It provides the "goals, norms, and standards for conducting the process
of education."
In the second case, it means "an hypothesis or set of hypotheses that have been verified by observation and experiment."
A descriptive theory of education can be thought of as a conceptual
scheme that ties together various "otherwise discrete particulars. .
.For example, a cultural theory of education shows how the concept of
culture can be used to organize and unify the variety of facts about how
and what people learn."
Likewise, for example, there is the
behaviorist theory of education that comes from
educational psychology and the
functionalist theory of education that comes from
sociology of education.
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