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    Educational agencies are institutions that directly or indirectly influence a child's education and development. The main agencies are the family, school, peer group, community, and mass media. The family provides early training and helps develop a child's personality. Schools teach academic subjects and skills while socializing children. Peer groups socialize individuals and help them develop talents. The community provides educational resources and coordinates efforts. Mass media like television and the internet can support learning. Community schools and colleges aim to provide affordable, job-oriented education to local communities.

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    MEANING OF EDUCATIONAL AGENCY

    An agency of education is a specialized institution or organization that

    MEANING OF EDUCATIONAL AGENCY


    An agency of education is a specialized institution or organization that directly or indirectly exercises an
    educational influence on the child.
    The family/ home, school, community, and the media are called the agencies of education, which directly or
    indirectly influence for shaping personality of the child.

    Definition
    According to Bhatia (1994), "Society has developed a number of specialized institutions to carry out the
    functions of education. These institutions are known as Agencies of Education'. Among the agencies,some
    may be the formal agencies of education whereas others informal agencies.

    CHARACTERISTICS OF EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES


    >It exercises some educational influence on individual
    >It is directly or indirectly concern with the education of youngsters.
    >It include both formal as well as informal social institutions.
    >It concerned with the transmission of cultural and social heritage of the society.
    >It include both specialized as well as non-specialized institutions.

    1. THE FAMILY
    • The family is the oldest, basic and fundamental unit of human society. It is regarded as the primary agent
    of education. The basic purpose of the family is to provide a loving safe environment for children.
    -Home, therefore, plays a very important role in laying the foundation of the child's personality in terms of
    physical, emotional, social, moral and cognitive aspects.

    Educational functions of the family


    1. It provide early physical training
    2. It teaches the child about the culture, tradition, and customs of the society
    3. It acculturates the child
    4. It helps in character formation
    5. It supports mental development
    6. It imparts spiritual and moral education
    7. It prepares ground for future learning
    8. It identifies the interest and motivation of the child and accordingly provides opportunities to them
    9. developing a balanced personality in all aspects of human living.

    SCHOOL
    School in the modern time is indispensible and has become an important formal agency of education. The
    word 'School' has been derived from the Greek word 'Skhole' that means leisure. In Ancient times, India had
    the Gurukula system of education where students were accepted as Shishayas and stayed with the guru in
    ashrams/ gurukuls.
    • The guru understand the psychology of the child and impart entire knowledge available including moral
    education, language, religious books, Philosophy, Mathematics, metaphysics etc.

    Cont.,
    The School is an agency of education and also as a miniature of the society. Socialization and acculturation
    are also important functions of the School. It works for socializing the young generation. Students not only
    learn from the academic curriculum prepared by teachers and School administrators, they also learn social
    rules and expectations from interactions with others.
    Educational Functions of School
    -Transmitting Traditional Culture
    -Teaching Basic Skills and Vocational Education
    -The School is expected to imbibe values in the children. In school curriculum, moral science is taught as a
    subject. The stories of national heroes are also part of the curriculum.
    • Life Skills Education: self-awareness, effective
    communication, creative thinking, critical thinking,
    problem solving ability, coping with stress, coping
    with emotions etc

    Cont.,
    • Increased Functional Literacy: 3R (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic)
    • Sex and Family Education: the school to provide sex and family education as part of curriculum
    • Learning to live together: The School actually
    allows children to mingle and interact

    2. THE PEER GROUP


    A peer group is a group of individuals having more
    or less same age and status . It is a group of friends
    that a certain person will try to impress to get their
    bond, social status, and interest.

    Educational role of the peer group


    1. It socializes the individual
    2. It helps to develop balanced personality
    3. It facilitate mental development
    4. It favours physical development
    5. It inculcate social values
    6. It develops leadership qualities
    7. It foster talents and creative abilities
    8. It acculturates

    3.THE COMMUNITY
    -The term community refers to a group of people living together in an area having common ways of working
    and common ideals to achieve.
    -Community is an informal and active agency of education which casts lasting influence on the educational
    development of the individual.

    Educational role of community


    1. Provide educational facilities to children through institutions.
    2. Formulate aims and objectives of education.
    3. Socializes the child.
    4. Helps for cultural development.
    5. It encourages the vocational development of the learner.
    6. They encourages and coordinates the educational efforts of various parallel agencies

    4. THE MASS MEDIA


    • The media used for the masses to communicate something are called as mass media
    • They are sources of and news such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cinema, and internet that
    reach and influence large number of people.

    Educational functions of mass media

    1. Television can serve a powerful medium for imparting education through educational broadcasting.
    2. The world wide web make interaction between the teacher and the taught sitting in remote places. Helps
    in intellectual, social, emotional, and aesthetic development.
    4. Helps children to enrich their imagination, ignitestheir creativity, encourage them to think
    divergently.

    5. Helps to transmitting cultural values from one generation to another.


    6. Helps to develop social and political values like feeling of brotherhood, oneness, cooperation,
    democratic values etc.
    7. Newspapers plays their educational function byproviding up-to-date information about many
    areas and also by intimating information about the opportunities of education

    COMMUNITY SCHOOL AND COLLEGES

    COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    -A community school is both a place and a set of partnerships between the school and other community
    resources.
    -Its integrated focus on academics, health and social services, youth and community development and
    community engagement leads to improved student learning, stronger families and healthier communities
    -Community schools offer a personalized curriculum that emphasizes real-world learning and community
    problem-solving. Schools become centers of the community and are open to everyone - all day, every
    day, evenings and weekends.

    Cont.,
    -Community schools bring together many partners to offer a range of supports and opportunities to children,
    youth, families and communities.
    -Partners work to achieve these results: Children are ready to enter school; students attend school
    consistently; students are actively involved in learning and their
    community; families are increasingly involved with their children's education; schools are engaged with
    families and communities; students succeed academically; students are healthy - physically, socially, and
    emotionally;
    -students live and learn in a safe, supportive, and stable environment, and communities are desirable places
    to live.

    COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    A community college is an institution under India's higher education system that aims at providing job
    oriented education to students from local communities.
    • It is a system that provides education above secondary level and below degree level with different skill-
    oriented as well as traditional courses. The duration of the courses typically range from six months to two
    years.

    Cont.,
    The college offers admission to these courses at an affordable cost without compromising the quality of
    education imparted. This gives opportunities to students/ learners to move directly to the employment sector
    or higher education level.
    -The concept of community college has basically originated from the USA where such institutions have
    been in existence for about 100 years. And from there gradually, community colleges gained prominence
    and were set up in different countries across the globe including India.

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