Sociological Foundation of Education

Contents: 1. Sociology and education. 2. Education and social change. 3. Educational agencies. 4. Social problems. 5. The home or family as a social institution. 6. The school and the community. 7. State as an agency of education. 8. Co-ordination in educational administration. 9. Education for democracy. 10. Education for national and emotional integration. 11. Education for global understanding. 12. Education for socialistic pattern of society. 13. Education as an instrument of social change.

Education is a social process. It has a social function and above all, it originates in response to social needs and problems. The two fold relationship between education being both the product and the producer of the social environment, is quite evident. ‘The School’, it has been rightly said, ‘is created by society to recreate society’. Consequently, an adequate back-ground of sociological knowledge is indispensable for the proper understanding of the various educational problems.

The present book Sociological Foundation of Education discusses all the aspects of education from sociological point of view. The text are arranged in a lucid form ad written in a simple colloquial English language.