EDU501 Midterm Short Notes by Muhammad

These are three component of a triangle · School · Community · Teacher

These components have equal importance in a triangle. If any one of them is missing, the triangle will not be complete. For a proper triangle, all three components have to merge together.

Relationship among school, teacher and community

If school and teacher work but community does not exist the triangle does not stand, if school and community are in harmony with one another and teachers are not collaborating with both, again we do not have good educational results. So, for good educational standards and to meeting the targets and goals, we need the collaboration of all three components.

Pillars of the society

School, community and teacher are independent pillars of a society and a nation depends on how the schools are functioning with cooperation and understanding of the community and how the teachers are playing an important role by looking at the standard set by the school.

School as part in in the community

School is an important part of the community, it is not a mere building, and schools have to a lot to do to serve the community. Similarly community contributes a lot to school. Communities combine their practices, resources, and perspectives to form a shared knowledge base that informs their practice. Members of a community of practice have a common sense of purpose and a real need to know what the others know. So, all these depend on each other.

School is the second home for a child. It has its own culture, its name and its identity. School is the second home for a child. It has its own culture, its name and its identity. Children come from a home, which is a part of a community, with deep rooted norms of culture and behaviors. It also has its own identity.

School is the second home for a child. It has its own culture, name and identity. A child comes from a home which is a part of a community. School has also its own identity. School brings vision for us. It is said that 99% people consider school as a second home. They feel that the days spent in school were the best one in theirlives.

School as identity

School has not only the building but also a name, culture and identity. Parents hold an opinion about the school, whether government or private. School has its own culture, good or bad, it depends how the school authority conducts it, how the community visualize the school in a particular area and how the teachers contribute to the identity and culture of the school. A child comes from home holding a specific culture and adjusts him with the school environment.

•  A child needs a familiar set up to settle in the new environment of school which respects his identity and home culture and identity to which they belong.

Different background

The culture of a society has deep roots and theschool and home are part of that society. The child has a certain culture at home, he goes to school and figures out that the school has also some norms and routines; at playground, he learns that different children come from different homes and each has his own home culture.

Community & teacher help the child

Thus, it is a difficult task, for the child, to become familiar with all three different cultures. However, the community members,school staff and teachers can help the children to address three different culturesissues. They can generate a friendly environment and sense of attachment and may instigate respect and harmony amongthe home,school and the community culture. This will imply a positive impact on the child‘s growth. So, educating a child is a partnership between home and school, and that connection must remain clear and strong to monitor progress and take action when there are problems.

The teacher‟s role is to:

Develop an understanding of the student‟s culture and communities

Value their student‟s culture

Respect their students families

Referebce: McCaleb,PS (1994)Building Communities of learners,

USA: Lawrence Erbaum associates

So, it is the responsibility of the teacher to understand the culture and community fromwhich the students are coming from. It is not an easy task for a teacher to know the culture, community and the home culture of each and every student; however the teachers should do it. If the teacher does not know the culture and community of the students, she may misunderstand the situation. The teacher‘s role is not only to know the culture but also to understand the traditions and value their culture. We need to learn that other people who have different culture, can also Have good values, norms and traditions. As sometimes we think that whatever we do, is best. Similarly, we think that our culture is best or superior to others. Weshould give space to others.

Teacher as a role model

The teacher is the role model for students and thus should respect, value and appreciate the culture of each and every student and mustalways give positive remark about the culture, whatever the culture is.

Example

For example if the student say it is my culture that I need to shake hands with my elders, the teacher must appreciate that, this will be a very kind gesture, that the teacher may say, ―O fine, that‘s wonderful, I think this is very interesting‖. These are all positive statements, statement which pride the students. Students must love that behavior and they would respect their teachers, along with that teacher must respect the family of the students irrespective of their status and educational background.

A social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. Community may be small, medium or large. It has same govt, same laws and same traditions, same culture and same historical heritage.

Concept of community

A social, religious occupational or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists.

Example

For example, in a village, city, people live together but people who share common religious thoughts could form a group with the same common religious ideas and practices and term them a community of that particular religious group. Similarly, in a society people who share the same occupation such as ironsmith, gold smith or people who are dealing with business, have common issues, common interests and perceive them different from the larger society in which they live, can form a subcommunity. Another example can be of the people who do business of garments, they have common issues, they think the interest of their business. They have common goals, characteristics; they can form the group of business community. This labeling is just because of same occupation.

Topic: 006 – Community

A social, religious occupational or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as district in some respect from the larger society within which it exist for example business community.

Community formation

There are many people in a city or town or village living together but people who share the common religious thoughts could form a group with the same common religious ideas an practices and therefore be called community of that particular religious group or it could be people having the same occupation where they are living amongst in a larger society but they are sharing a few people who are the sharing the same occupation such as goldsmith or iron smith.

Topic: 007 – Relationship between school and community

School as a cultural social and community institution.