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Social responsibility is an ethical concept in which a person works and cooperates with other people and organizations for the benefit of the community. [ 1 ] An organization can demonstrate social responsibility in several ways, for instance, by donating, encouraging volunteerism , using ethical hiring procedures, and making changes that ...
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to ...
Talcott Parsons believed that this process, whereby some students were identified and labelled educational failures, "was a necessary activity which one part of the social system, education, performed for the whole". [21] Yet the structural functionalist perspective maintains that this social order, this continuity, is what most people desire.
Cienfuegos, a non-profit group teaching art to people with disabilities in Cuba. Universal access to education [1] is the ability of all people to have equal opportunity in education, regardless of their social class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnic background or physical and mental disabilities. [2]
In Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education, John Dewey stated that education, in its broadest sense, is the means of the "social continuity of life" given the "primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group". Education is therefore a necessity, for "the ...
Social pedagogy describes a holistic and relationship-centred way of working in care and educational settings with people across the course of their lives. In many countries across Europe (and increasingly beyond), it has a long-standing tradition as a field of practice and academic discipline concerned with addressing social inequality and facilitating social change by nurturing learning ...
Differences in family resources result in differences in the learning environments experienced by children. Children with various social backgrounds experience different home learning environments, attend different early childhood facilities, schools, school-related facilities, and recreational facilities, and have different peer groups.
Another perspective perceives education not as a process but as the mental states and dispositions of educated individuals resulting from this process. [5] Furthermore, the term may also refer to the academic field that studies the methods, processes, and social institutions involved in teaching and learning. [6]