2. Education transforms the possible labor force into the realistic labor force and becomes an important means of labor reproduction.
3. Education creates, preserves and disseminates scientific and cultural knowledge to improve the scientific and cultural level of the whole society. "Education is the main base for knowledge innovation, dissemination and application, and it is also the cradle for cultivating innovative spirit and innovative talents.
4. Education directly promotes economic growth through its own operation.
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Educational function
1, social function
The social function of education mainly refers to the reaction of education to social development. The development level of productive forces restricts the development level of education, which in turn promotes the development of social productive forces. There are five different relations of production in history, so there are five different kinds of education.
A country controls education through its educational principles and policies, which in turn serves to consolidate its rule and plays an important role in social politics and economy. Education is an integral part of culture and plays an important role in the inheritance and development of culture. The influence of economy and politics on education is often reflected by the development of culture. Education is also national and regional.
China attached great importance to the social and political functions of education in ancient times. "Xue Ji" pointed out: "Building the country and the people, teaching comes first." "If you want to turn people into customs, you must learn." Dong Zhongshu, an educator in the Han Dynasty, summed up the historical experience of China's educational development in his book "Good Policy is Virtuous" and made a suggestion to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: "The ancient monarch knew this well, so to govern the world from the south, education must be the most important task."
In a word, education has an important social function, which is one of the essential characteristics of education. Education can promote social production and consolidate economic foundation; Education can be a means of social and political struggle, affecting the construction of democracy and legal system; Education can preserve, inherit and even create human culture; Education can also protect the environment, control population and so on. Therefore, the social function of education is multifaceted.
2. Personal function
Human development is not only a process of natural growth, development and maturity in physical and mental development with the continuous growth of age, but also a process in which individuals gradually assume social roles, constantly enhance their self-awareness and enrich their living world. In the process of human development, education plays a role in promoting individual socialization and individualization, and enhancing individual enjoyment consciousness and ability.
(A) the individual socialization function of education
Everyone lives in a certain society, participates in social life and becomes a member of society. There is no so-called "pure" individual divorced from human society. "The transformation of an individual from a natural organism to a subject of social activities is realized through the process of individual socialization."
The content of socialization is very extensive, and all the basic knowledge, skills, behaviors, living habits and various concepts that reflect the social requirements of individual development and social life are the content of individual socialization.
From the perspective of school education, personal socialization mainly includes four aspects: first, learning life skills, mainly including daily life skills and vocational skills needed by the era and society in which individuals live; Second, internalize social culture, mainly including value system and social norms;
The third is to improve self-concept, that is, to have a correct understanding of one's physical and psychological condition and the relationship between oneself and others and society; Fourth, learn to assume social roles, that is, through role learning and role practice, he can consciously act according to the norms stipulated for him in the social structure, which is the essence and ultimate embodiment of socialization.
The basic way of people's socialization is the unity of socialized education and individualization. Social education is education in a broad sense, including school education and various informal forms of education, such as social customs, group public opinion, media and so on. Individualization refers to the process that individuals learn and receive social education in a certain way, and transform social goals, values, norms and behavior patterns into stable personality characteristics and behavior response patterns.
The internalization of individuals is carried out in the activities of individuals. It is a process in which an individual's internal psychological structure interacts with the external social environment and chooses and adapts to the latter. Social education and individualization complement each other in the process of individual socialization.
For teenagers, education is not only the main body of social education, but also an effective means to promote individualization, so education, especially school education, plays a fundamental role in the process of teenagers' socialization. This role is reflected in the following two aspects. First, the purpose, plan and organization of school education activities fully guarantee the socialization of individuals.
School education is a purposeful, planned and organized activity to impart certain social norms, values, knowledge and skills to young people. It is systematically and scientifically influenced by full-time teachers through specific educational content, educational methods and evaluation system, thus providing sufficient guarantee for the socialization of young students.
This guarantee function is difficult to achieve in any other social activities. Second, school education provides a special favorable environment for individual socialization. As a specialized organization of teenagers' socialization, school is a very formal social organization with obvious sociality. All its activities reflect the requirements of society and convey social values everywhere.
As legal knowledge, curriculum embodies the mainstream values of society; Teachers, as spokesmen of society, play specific social roles such as interpreters, executors and arbiters of social norms in their time. The socialization environment of school education is irreplaceable by other social organizations, and individuals can realize their socialization tasks relatively smoothly and effectively in this environment.
(B) the personalized function of personal education
Man's development is not only a process of individual's gradual integration into society, but also a process of individual's continuous development, self-prominence, and then self-realization. In this process, individuals choose to be themselves and live their own lives, forming a series of personality characteristics such as personal interests, hobbies, abilities and specialties.
Individualization and socialization of individuals are sometimes contradictory at the specific level. For example, individualization emphasizes individuality and independent choice, while socialization pays more attention to generality and social compulsion, but it is unified in essence. The commonness lies in individuality, and the diversity of individuality is also based on unity. The process of individualization and socialization is also completed at the same time, and they are inseparable.
The formation of personality is actually completed in the process of socialization, because the formation of personality can not be separated from the corresponding social practice activities. On the one hand, the process of socialization makes people living in the same era, the same nation and the same class have common characteristics.
On the other hand, because everyone has his own unique genetic quality, special living environment and different degrees of subjective initiative, people are not passively receiving socialized education. In the process of socialization, individuals are actually adapting to society in different ways, and in the process of adapting to society, they are also forming their own unique personality.
The role and influence of education on individual individualization are reflected in the following four aspects:
First, put forward the goal of personality development and make clear the direction of individual personalization. Many schools have included "cultivating students' self-awareness and self-development ability, enriching and perfecting students' personality" in their own school goals, which is the concrete embodiment of individual personalized development requirements in school education. Individualized requirements of educational goals undoubtedly have a strong traction on the individualized development of individuals.
Second, fully tap personal potential and create conditions for individual personalization. The full development of individual potential is an important symbol and fundamental embodiment of individual personalization. Through scientific methods and means such as teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, and paying attention to individual differences, we will provide each student with a broad space to fully display their potential, fully tap their potential, and continuously develop and improve their personality.
Third, improve the basic quality of individuals and lay the foundation for individual individualization. The development of individual personality is carried out in the individual's active activities, and the effect of the activities depends on the individual's knowledge reserve and basic quality levels such as cognition, emotion and attitude. An individual with good basic qualities can give full play to his subjective initiative in activities, play an active role in the social environment, and form his own good personality while socializing.
Fourth, create an overall cultural environment to provide protection for individual personality. Individualized development is the inherent requirement of individual development, but it can only be fully guaranteed in a good environment, especially in the overall cultural environment of school education.
(C) the individual enjoyment function of education
The socialization and individualization of individuals refer to the development of individuals. While promoting individual development, education can also make the educated get some special enjoyment: individual's life needs are met, curiosity is realized, spiritual world is enriched, and then happiness is obtained. This is the individual enjoyment function of education.
The individual enjoyment function of education is mainly reflected in the relationship between human education and happiness, which is mainly reflected in the following aspects: first, education can fully meet people's instinctive needs and lay the foundation for individual happiness;
Secondly, education improves people's cognitive level, enriches people's emotional world and gives people the function of experiencing and feeling happiness; Finally, school life itself is a happy life. Seeking truth, kindness and beauty are the main values of campus life. School life creates a good atmosphere for people to experience and feel happy.
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