IntroductionSchools:

The Center of Social

Transformation

JED A. CAMPOSANOMAE-EM

Dr. Enrique G. BakingProfessor 6

EDUCATION FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

“We must be the change we want to see in the world.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Education is central to development. It empowers people and strengthens nations. It is a powerful equalizer. It opens doors to all to lift them out of poverty. It promotes economic growth, national productivity and innovation. It values democracy and social cohesion.

Social transformation implies at a very least some fundamental changes in society’s core institutions, the polity and the economy, with major implications for relationships between social groups or classes, and for the means of the creation and distribution of wealth, power and status.

Education can initiate social changes by bringing about a change in outlook and attitude of man.

Education has been chiefly instrumental in preparing the way for the development of science and technology.

It has brought about phenomenal changes in every aspect of men’s life.

It is a process which enables every individual to effectively participate in the activities of society and to make positive contribution to the progress of society.

The schools were intended to answer the question: how must people be educated in order to solve the global problem in pollution, population, peace and poverty in order to solve them creatively, actively, and constructively?

Correlates of Effective School

1. Clear school mission2. High expectations for

success3. Good instructional

leadership4. Opportunity to learn

and time on task5. Safe and orderly

environment6. Positive home-school

relations7. Frequent monitoring of

student progress

1. Why do some public schools that educate students from disadvantaged backgrounds make a difference while others fail?

2. Why Philippines in spite of its high literacy rate remains at the bottom in terms of its economic development?

6. Lowers maternal mortality rates

7. Protects against HIV Infection

8. It increases women’s labor force participation and rate earnings

9. Creates intergenerational education benefits.

  

Benefits of Education

1. Improves health and nutrition

2. It increases productivity and earnings

3. Reduces inequality

4. It reduces women’s fertility rates

5. It lowers infant and child mortality rate

Benefits of Education to Society 1.Drives economic competitiveness2.It has synergistic, poverty

reducing effects3.It contributes to democratization4.It promotes peace and stability5.It promotes concern for the

environment

IntroductionSchools

Center of Social Transformation