2. What is Education
• Education is an act or process of imparting
or/of acquiring
general knowledge, developing the abilities of
reasoning and judgment, and generally prepar
ing oneself or others intellectually for adult
life.

3. Another Definition of Education
• Education in its general sense is a form
of learning in which knowledge, skills,
and habits of a group of people are
transferred from one generation to the next
through teaching, training, research, or simply
through observation and generally occurs
through any experience that has a formative
effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts.

4. Categories of Education
• Formal Education
• Non- Formal Education
• In- Formal Education

5. Theorist view on Education
• The Functionalist Theory
• The Conflict Theory
• The Symbolic Interactionist Theory
• The Feminist Theory

6. The Functionalist
• Functionalists first see education in its
manifest role: conveying basic knowledge and
skills to the next generation. Durkheim (the
founder of functionalist theory) identified the
latent role of education as one of socialising
people into society's mainstream.

7. The Conflict Theorist View
• Conflict theorists see the educational system
as perpetuating the status quo by dulling the
lower classes into being obedient workers.
• Conflict theorists see education not as a social
benefit or opportunity, but as a powerful
means of maintaining power structures and
creating a docile work force for capitalism.

8. The symbolic
• They focused on how teacher expectations
influence student performance, perceptions,
and attitudes and identified such
phenomenon’s as
• Self-fulfilling Prophesy
• Labeling

9. The Feminist
• Feminists view education as an active cause in
secondary socialization, which then helps to
forge patriarchy.
• The view of the Liberal feminist is that
changes in equal opportunities and education
policies will end patriarchy

10. Differential Educational Achievement
• The Differential Educational Achievement
Concept seeks to identify that there are more
prominent factors, other than those that
occur in the classroom that impact children of
diverse groups causing them to achieve
different levels of educational performance in
society.

11. Our Factors of Differential Education
• Gender
• Intelligence (Genetic, Hereditary or
Environmental)
• Labeling

12. What is Gender in Education
• Gender can be described as the social,
psychological and cultural attributes of
muscularity and femininity that are based on
biological distinctions.
• Extent to which females and males perform
differently in different subjects
• Their tendency to study different subjects as the
given choice
• The Genderquake where girls are out-
performing boys

13. Intelligence
• There is general agreement that intelligence is
due to;
• The genes inherited from parents
• The environment in which children grow up

15. Labelling
• Labeling Theory focuses exclusively on school
factors and specifically on classroom
interaction between the teacher and their
pupils. “Labeling is a process, not a direct,
casual force”

16. Conclusion
• Though, we have identified many a diverse
challenge why students achieve varying levels of
academic achievement. Education still remains
the second (after family) primary source of
socialisation for individuals and regardless of
whose perspective you look at it from,
Functionalist, Conflict (Marxist), Symbolic
Interactionist or Feminist, the institution of
Education is mandatory in any and every society
if it is to remain in existence.

17. Conclusion Cont’d
With regards to our topics specifically covered
Gender, Intelligence and Labelling as it
pertains to education.
As a result of there being an elevated level of
awareness of these issues here in Trinidad and
Tobago we firmly believe that the educational
framework in society will continue to evolve
with and around, these issues.

18. References
• BECKER H (1963) Outsiders; studies in the
sociology of deviance Glencoe, Ill: Free Press
HARGREAVES D, HESTAR S and MELLOR F (1975)
Deviance in Classrooms London; Routledge and
Kegan Paul
LEMERT E (1972) Human Deviance, Social
Problems and Social Control (2nd edn.)
Englewood Cliffs N J; Prentice-Hall
ROSENTHAL R and JACOBSON L (1968) Pygmalion
in the Classroom New York; Holt, Rinehart and
Winston

19. Sociology
• ASSIGNMENT TITLE: Group Project
• ASSIGNMENT SUBTITLE: Group Presentation: EDUCATION
• COURSE CODE: SOCIOLOGY 102
• COURSE TITLE: Introduction to the Study of Society
• CRN: 13218 SEMESTER: One (1)
• STUDENT NAMES: Mrs. Maryum Samuel-Darmanie #00046543
• Ms. Isha Moore #
• Ms. Belinda Andrews #00023273
• Mr. Adrian R. Charles #00047372
• Ms. Erica Felix #
• Mr. Renil Ramdeo #
• Ms. Chrissie Blue #
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