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5: School

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Learning Objectives
  • Identify types of schools/systems and educational systems.
  • Explore the interrelationships of families, communities and schools.
  • Identify the roles of teachers/educators.
  • Explore current research and methods.

The Role of School in our Society

Schools and schooling in the United States and were developed to facilitate learning, increase knowledge, skills and impart values based on the dominant culture(s) and structural systems (Larson, 2021). Formal education is commonly divided formally into such stages as infant/toddler, preschool, transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, middle school, high school and then career technical education, college, university and internships or apprenticeships.


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