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Education:
Education is the process of facilitating learning. Knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits of a group of people are transferred to other people, through storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, or research.
Schooling :
Action and effect of providing a child or young person of compulsory education
Hidden Curriculum
is a side effect of an education, "[lessons] which are learned but not openly intended", such as the transmission of norms, values, and beliefs conveyed in the classroom and the social environment.
Tracking
Search for a person or thing or following a scent signal.
Bilingual Education
carefully planned an instructional program in which two languages are used; The program provides instruction in English as a second language, and uses primary language as medium of instruction in the content areas
Open Classroom
It is an experience of relaxation and an innovative curriculum strategy of education in cycles I and II, that legitimizes the right to education of children and young people excluded from education and at risk of dropping out.
Cooperative Learning
Cooperative learning is a teaching method where students of mixed levels of ability are arranged into groups and rewarded according to the group's success, rather than the success of an individual member.
Integrative curriculum
It is a method of teaching small children using a different subject matters in a fun and meaningful way for each child.
Voucher System
Is a certificate of funding issued by the government, which the parents of a schoolchild have control of and are able to direct towards the public or private school of their own choosing to fully or partially pay for the tuition of their child at that school for that year, term or semester
Charter Schools
A charter school is a letter to state education authorities.
Magnet Schools
In the U.S. education system, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses and curricula.
For-profit schools
There are three types of for-profit schools. One type is known as an educational management organization (EMO), and these are primary and secondary educational institutions.
Manifest function
Manifest functions are conscious, deliberate and beneficial, the latent ones the unconscious, unintended and beneficial, and dysfunctions are unconscious, unintended and harmful.
Latent function
Latent functions are those objective consequences contributing to social adaptation, but they are not seen or loved by the members of a society.
Meritocracy
Is a political philosophy which holds that power should be vested in individuals almost exclusively according to merit.
Educational Equality
is a measure of achievement, fairness, and opportunity in education
Cogniyive Ability
The mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.
cultural bias
is the phenomenon of interpreting and judging phenomena by standards inherent to one's own culture. The phenomenon is sometimes considered a problem central to social and human sciences, such as economics, psychology, anthropology, and sociology.
school desegregation
is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races
Multicultural Education
Refers to any form of education or teaching that incorporates the histories, texts, values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds.
compensatory education
offers supplementary programs or services designed to help children at risk of cognitive impairment and low educational achievement succeed
self-fulfilling prophecy
is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.
Relegion
Set of religious beliefs, behavioral norms and ceremonies of prayer or sacrifice that are specific to a particular group and that man recognizes a relationship with deity (a god or gods).
sacred
devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
Profane
Treated without due respect something that is considered sacred.
Monotheism
is defined by the Encyclopædia Britannica as belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness of God
Polytheism
refers to the worship of or belief in multiple deities usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religions and rituals. In most religions which accept polytheism, the different gods and goddess are representations of forces of nature or ancestral principles, and can be viewed either as autonomous or as aspects or emanations of a creator God or transcendental absolute principle, which manifests immanently in nature
Religiosity
the quality of being religious; piety; devoutness.
secularization
To make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
Fundamentalism
a movement in American Protestantism that arose in the early part of the 20th century in reaction to modernism and that stresses the infallibility of the Bible not only in matters of faith and morals but also as a literal historical record, holding as essential to Christian faith belief in such doctrines as the creation of the world, the virgin birth, physical resurrection, atonement by the sacrificial death of Christ, and the Second Coming.
Protestant ethic
in sociological theory, the value attached to hard work, thrift, and efficiency in one’s worldly calling, which, especially in the Calvinist view, were deemed signs of an individual’s election, or eternal salvation.
church
A building for public, especially Christian worship.
Denomination
A religious group, usually including many local churches, often larger than a sect.
Sect
A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political or philosophical belief system, usually an offshoot of a larger religious group.
Cult
In the sociological classifications of religious movements in English, a cult is a religious or social group with socially deviant or novel beliefs and practices.
