EDUCATION

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• Resource Kumar, S., & Ahmad, S. (2008). Meaning, aims and process of education. School of Open Learning. Retrieved from: https://sol.du.ac.in/SOLsite/Courses/UG/StudyMaterial/16/Part1/ED/English/SM-1.pdf

1. Has been derived from two Latin words Educare (Educere) and Educatum. “Educare” means to train or mould. The term Educare or Educere mainly indicates development of the latent faculties of the child.
   1. TRUE DEFINITION OF EDUCATION
      1. Education is the development of individual according to his needs and demands of society, of which he is an integral part.
   2. NARROWER AND BRODER MEANING OF EDUCATION
      1. In the narrower sence is regarded as equivalent to instruction. It consists of the “specific influences” consciously designed in a school or in a college or in an institution to bring in the development and growth of the child. In its wider sense, education is the total development of the personality. In this sense. Education consists of all those experiences, which affect the individual from birth till death.
   3. AIMS OF EDUCATION
      1. Need of aims:to bring certain desirable change, gives direction to activity
         1. Different aims: The Vocational Aim, The Knowledge or Information Aim, The Culture Aim, The Character Formation Aim or the Moral Aim, The Spiritual Aim The Adjustment Aim, The Leisure Aim, The Citizenship Training Aim, The Harmonious Development Aim, The Complete Living Aim, The Social Aim.
   4. PROCESS
      1. Education by Accretion or Storage Education as formation of mind, Education as preparation. Education as mental discipline, Education as growth and development, Education as direction, Education as adjustment and self-activity, Education as social change and progress, Education as Process Socialization.
2. PHILOSOPHICAL
   1. Philosophy gives self-consciousness and develops a spirit of enquiry after truth. Life and education are inseparably connected. One cannot be separated from the other. Hence life has a philosophical base and so education also has a philosophical base.
   2. Interrelation between Education and Philosophy: John Dewey defines philosophy as a theory of education in its most general aspects. He holds that “education is the laboratory in which philosophic truth become concrete and are tested.”
      1. Philosophy exercises tremendous influence on education in all its aspects—aims, curriculum, methods, teachers, textbooks, administration, discipline, evaluation etc. There is no aspect of education, which is not influenced and determined by philosophy.
3. SOCIOLOGICAL
   1. Education is both a cause and product of society. It originates in the society and it must fulfill the needs and aspirations of the society. There is thus an intimate relationship between education and society.
      1. Educational Sociology is the study of interaction of the individual and his cultural environment. Thus social interaction is the key area of educational sociology.
      2. The aim of modern education is individual development as well as social advancement. Education enables an individual to make his life better both as an individual and as a member of his society. Education now emphasizes total development of an individual. This total development includes intellectual, social, moral, aesthetic, cultural, physical developmen
         1. According to Payne, from the point of view of educational sociology the functions of education are mainly three (a) transmission of social and cultural heritage, (b) development of new social patterns, and (c) creative and constructive role.
            1. The methods of teaching are also influenced by educational sociology. The teacher has to adopt some method or technique to establish relationship between the objectives and the materials of instruction
4. PSYCHOLOGICAL
   1. Educational Psychology has developed to study scientifically the behaviour of the students and to help the process of education. It is particular field applied psychology. It tries to study the educational behaviour of the child and applies the knowledge psychology in education
   2. A large number of educationists and psychologists have contributed to the origin and development of educational psychology. Because of the impact of psychology it has attained the status of science. In the writings of Plato we find the elements of psychology.
      1. Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Herbart, Montessori, James, Pavlov, Thorndike, Skinner and others emphasized the use of psychological knowledge in education.
5. For me, education is an indispensable resource that allows us a personal, social and psychological evolution.