The Manifest and Latent Functions of Education

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ynlyn97

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Discuss the manifest and latent functions of education? Identify rules or regulations that some educational instittutions may use to encourage students to maintain the status quo and discourage individual creativity, can you also relate? What trends in eduaction are beneficial and which are not? (Is manditaotry testing/STAR doing its job? Is bilingual education working? should students learn a language before graduating?) Consider the high school you attended, do you feel like you received a good education; did it prepare you for college?

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When one thinks about the educational process, there are some ideas that will immediately
popped into one’s head. For instance, the transmission of knowledge regarding multiple areas –
science and math, art, values and philosophies, physical training and social interactions – is exactly
what one expects when education comes to mind. The process of educating young minds is the
main manifest function of education – as redundant as it may sound. Manifest functions are all
those that one expects to find an institution. However, institutions are rarely confined to their
manifest functions. Latent functions – those that are not intended but which can arise within a
given setting – can al...


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