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A sociological approach to education: A revision of community backgrounds of education.School and community relations.

A sociological approach to education: A revision of community backgrounds of education.: School... Most persons have heard some story of the magician and his parrot. In one version, the two were crossing the ocean when the ship was blown up. Landing in the water, the parrot on his shoulder, the man was surprised to hear the bird's raucous voice: "Come, sir, come on, now. Where in 'ell is that boat?" From now on, we shall be searching for the boat, our boat being the kind of education discussed in Chap. 1. Any search that is real can be counted upon to be difficult; yet we have some rules to guide us. Since social behavior is learned 'behavior, the importance of education in society can be taken for granted. It is, on the one hand, the way a society "renews" itself, continues its cultural heritage. On the other hand, it is the way persons develop into full-fledged members of the society. Schooling is a kind of education, more formal, more systematic than that outside. In either case, a great deal of learning occurs in social groups. Here, then, is our basic interest, the kind of learning wherever it takes place that is group-conditioned in both form and content. We know that schools are part of the culture they would transmit, that like any other institution they are subject to its controls. And yet, they are ever sorting and sifting its elements, ever redefining their functions, thus attempting both to pass on and to remake the nation's mode of life. Much of this story can be gleaned from a simple inquiry into the several ways that schools relate themselves to their environing community, their conception of functions in respect to local culture. To add that schools are different is to state a commonplace fact. We shall not make an exhaustive canvass of these differences but rather use them as a point of departure to study in successive chapters the kind of schooling most closely related to the realities of everyday community life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A sociological approach to education: A revision of community backgrounds of education.School and community relations.

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McGraw-Hill Book Company
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201 –224
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Most persons have heard some story of the magician and his parrot. In one version, the two were crossing the ocean when the ship was blown up. Landing in the water, the parrot on his shoulder, the man was surprised to hear the bird's raucous voice: "Come, sir, come on, now. Where in 'ell is that boat?" From now on, we shall be searching for the boat, our boat being the kind of education discussed in Chap. 1. Any search that is real can be counted upon to be difficult; yet we have some rules to guide us. Since social behavior is learned 'behavior, the importance of education in society can be taken for granted. It is, on the one hand, the way a society "renews" itself, continues its cultural heritage. On the other hand, it is the way persons develop into full-fledged members of the society. Schooling is a kind of education, more formal, more systematic than that outside. In either case, a great deal of learning occurs in social groups. Here, then, is our basic interest, the kind of learning wherever it takes place that is group-conditioned in both form and content. We know that schools are part of the culture they would transmit, that like any other institution they are subject to its controls. And yet, they are ever sorting and sifting its elements, ever redefining their functions, thus attempting both to pass on and to remake the nation's mode of life. Much of this story can be gleaned from a simple inquiry into the several ways that schools relate themselves to their environing community, their conception of functions in respect to local culture. To add that schools are different is to state a commonplace fact. We shall not make an exhaustive canvass of these differences but rather use them as a point of departure to study in successive chapters the kind of schooling most closely related to the realities of everyday community life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Nov 10, 2014

Keywords: school relations; community relations; education; sociology

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