THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SOCIOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION TO COMPARATIVE EDUCATION

2. Sociology
The word Sociology is derived from Greek word.
Sociology can be defined as the study of man and his environment in their relation
with each other.(August Comte (1798-1857) Father of Sociology)

3. EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
• Educational Sociology is the science, which describes and explains
institutions, groups and social processes in relation to the educational system
in its evolution and changing function

4. EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
• Studies relationship between education and sociology and deals with its
problems
• It is primarily concerned with social factors in education.
• Educational Sociology is sociology applied to the solution of fundamental
educational problems

5. Scope of sociology of education
• It is concerned with such general concepts such as society itself, culture, community,
class, environment, socialization, internalization, accommodation, assimilation,
cultural lag, sub-culture, status, role and so forth.
• It is further involved in cases of education and social class, state, social force, cultural
change, various problems of role structure, role analysis in relation to the total social
system and the micro society of the school such as authority, selection, and the
organization of learning, streaming, curriculum and so forth.
• It deals with analysis of educational situations in various geographical contexts. Eg.
Educational situations in rural, urban and tribal areas, in different parts of the
country/world, with the background of different races, cultures etc

6. Scope
• It helps us to understand the effectiveness of different educational methods in teaching students with
different kinds of intelligences.
• It studies the effect of economy upon the type of education provided to the students. Eg.education provided
in schools
• It helps us to understand the effect of various social agencies like family, school on the students.
• It studies the relationship between social class, culture, language, parental education, occupation and the
achievement of the students
• It studies the role and structure of school, peer group on the personality of the students
• It provides an understanding of the problems such as, communalism, gender discrimination etc.
• It studies the role of schools in socialization of the students.

7. Philosophies of Education

8. Meaning of Philosophy
• The word philosophy literally means love of wisdom;
• It is derived from two Greek words i.e. 'phileo' (love) and 'Sophia' (wisdom).
• There are different schools of philosophy depending on the answers they
seek to the question of reality.
• It is the search for understanding of man, nature and the universe.

9. CONCEPT OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
• The philosophy of education plays an important role in providing direction to
education
• Philosophy of education is essentially a method of approaching educational
experience rather than a body of conclusions
• Philosophical method is critical, comprehensive and synthetic.

10. Philosophies of Education
• The education philosophy can be broken down into four main schools of
thought:
• Idealism,
• Realism,
• Pragmatism and
• Existentialism.

11. Philosophies of Education
Each school of thought has at least one philosopher who would be
considered the forerunner of the school.
• Idealism, for example, is based on the early writings of Plato.
• Realism is based on the thinking of Aristotle.
• Pragmatism s based on the thoughts of a number of nineteenth-century
American philosophers.
• Existentialism is based on the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre.

12. Idealism; Idealists stress the importance
of learning ideas and concepts
Realism; Unlike idealists, realists highly
recommend the use of scientific
investigation and senses in order to
learn.
Pragmatism; Pragmatists place their
focus on the idea of change
Existentialism; Existentialists place their
focus on the ideas of existence and
essenc

13. Idealism;
Mind
Realism; Fact
Pragmatism;
Growth and
Efficiency
Existentialism;
Intensity of
Feeling

14. Sociology, Philosophy and Comparative
Education
• Sociology; Help us in understaning general concepts such as society itself, culture, community, class, environment,
socialization, internalization, accommodation, assimilation, cultural lag, sub-culture, status.
• Philosophy; It is the search for understanding of man, nature and the universe.
• Comparative Education; The Wiki encyclopedia defines comparative education as a fully established academic field of study
in which we compare the education system of one country with other it also include; Philosophies
• Education system
• Learning theories
• Teaching practices
• Examination system
• Geographical locations

15. Teaching practicesExamination system
Learning theories
Geographical locations
Education system
Philosophies
Sociology
Philosophy
ComparativeEducation