Discuss the role of community as an agency of education.
Community plays an important part in the education system. Students, teachers, and parents agree that community support is vital to the success of schools and individual students. The students participating on Students Speak Out discussed how communities can positively or negatively affect their individual experiences with school and schooling. Many students were encouraged by individual community members, but at the same time felt let down by their elected community leaders.
1. Community's Educational Potential. Potentially, community or society is an active agency of education. Its educational potential is contained in the following:
(i) It has finance. It can create formal as well as informal agencies for the purpose of educating its members. Schools, cinemas, communication media such as press, radio, newspaper, library, etc. and many other agencies work as organs of the community.
(ii) It has customs, practices and traditions. It has huge mass of accumulated experiences which is educative. All these provide material for thinking, (iii) there are group associations which children join.
2. Educational Role of the Community or Society.
The educational role of the community or the society is manifold. It is capable of playing a dynamic role directly or indirectly, in the education of its members. The community or the society as an active agency of education plays its role in the following manner:
(i) Financing Education.
Provision for liberal finance is an important factor in education. If the community or the society wishes that its young members should serve its ends well, it must make available whatever educational advantages are needed by the young people, individually or collectively, to prepare them for that service. So the community must liberally finance education in the form of donations for constructing parts of buildings etc.
(ii) Control of Formal Education.
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