SOC103H1 Lecture Notes - Latency Stage, Homeschooling, Millennium Development Goals
Document Summary
Education is one of the most important aspects in gaining a healthy and comfortable life. In the past, education was a privilege, reserved for the wealthy: today, education is considered as a right for every child. United nations" millennium development goals, helping children across the globe to gain primary school education. Credentialism is the rising need for more sophisticated educational qualifications, it is an increasingly trend in today"s market labour. Education also delivers societal values, along with skills needed for work: education incorporates concepts such as teamwork, leadership, tolerance. These ideas help people to integrate into today"s society. Education also increases people"s ability to form opinions and react accordingly to today"s complex events etc. Education is defined as a process designed to develop one"s general capacity for thinking critically, as well as a capacity for self-understanding and self-reliance. Formal education is education received in accredited schools during formal teaching sessions.
