Thursday, July 25, 2019

2.4 Educational system and the environment

2.4.1  Home and family influences on school

When a child misbehaves or fails to meet expectations at school, the child’s home and family life should be considered. Several family factors can affect a child’s behavior and ability to perform in the classroom. These include economic stability, changes in family relationships, parental attitudes toward education and incidents of child abuse.

Economic Stability

Poverty can affect school readiness in several ways. Children from lower-income homes often experience a lack of parental consistency, a frequent change in part-time caregivers, a lack of supervision, poor nutrition and poor role-modeling. Researches show that children from impoverished families tend to score lower in communication and vocabulary skills, knowledge of numbers, ability to copy and recognize symbols, concentration, and teamwork and cooperative play. Research conducted by the Society for Research in Child Development also found that children from low-income families received less positive parenting and had higher levels of cortisol, which has been associated with lower levels of cognitive development.

Changes in Family Relationships

                Divorce has long been linked to behavior problems, anxiety and depression in children. This is often because single-parent homes feature parents struggling with their own feelings of depression and anxiety, accomplishing household responsibilities previously held by two people and meeting more financial demands. Single parents often must take on more hours at work to meet financial responsibilities, which can lead to children feeling neglected and acting out, and cause them to experience the effects of economic instability mentioned above.

Parental Attitudes towards Education

                 Children learn first by mimicking behavior they see modeled for them. Researches show a positive correlation between the parents' level of education and their child’s attitudes toward academic achievement. Children who have parents who encourage academic success are more likely to develop their own aspirations for higher education. In this way, parent education is a good predictor of a child’s academic success.

Child Abuse

                  Child abuse can happen by way of physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, sexual abuse or substance abuse in the home. Victims of child abuse are known to be at high risk for engaging in risky behaviors and acting out in school. They might have problems socializing with other children and adults and completing or focusing on assignments.

2.4.2  Influence of religion on school

Education and religion are often seen to be incompatible. There is an underlying notion inside the liberal education establishment that religious belief is backwards and contrary to enlightenment. Schools have long been viewed as gateways to a glorious secular and technological future, free of religious superstition. After all, the purpose of education is to make children “career and college ready,” not to impart character or moral sentiments. 
Religion has not only a good impact, but even a great effect upon the success of a child’s education. Some of the religion creates the social class and gender discrimination so that the religious view becomes the reason for the discrimination over girls and the lower classes. Because of this reason so many child are out of the school in the context of Nepal. Also some of the religion believes some bad traditions that ultimately leads to the superstition and makes these groups unaccusable to the educational opportunities.
The sad fact is that while religion is good for education, education is not good for religion. The educational establishment treats religion as if it is a deadly disease, not a blessing, upon the child. While religion tends to help get students into college, college tends to get religion out of students. It is a sad fact that many students find an atmosphere on campus which corrupts their morals and erodes their faith. The welfare of the student should be a major concern for educators. All positive influences upon the child should be encouraged, not banished – especially if the influence is proven effective. In this sense, how much better education would be if it were at least not hostile to God and religion, and how much better it would be if education policy were to be based on facts, rather than prejudices?
       At last religion must help for fostering education. We have to change such types of religious views which makes us backward. And education must promote the religion through which religion make our life easy and developed. 

4.2.3 Financing of school

The implementation of the right to education requires funding in order to build schools, pay teachers’ salaries and training, provide teaching materials, etc.
Under international law, nations have the obligation to use the maximum of their available resources to realise the right to education. Even when a state’s resources are very limited, it is obliged to prioritise certain immediate obligations, such as the introduction of free primary education and to guarantee education for all without discrimination. It is also obliged to provide progressively free secondary and higher education and to continuously improve the quality of education. This means that it must take immediate and progressive steps to fully realise the right to education and must not take retrogressive measures.
To implement the right to education effectively, states should ensure that a sufficient proportion of the national budget is allocated to education financing and that the money is used effectively and equitably to guarantee education for all, as well as redress inequalities.
In our context so many remotes are unable to build the schools and the proper infrastructure, skilful teacher and so many related bases for the education. In the city two types of education system are making social classes so it is deviding society and making problems in the access of education. So government should make education proper and easy access for that all the education systems should be under the government control. This will make our society more peaceful. 

4.2.4 Influence of political and legal institutions on schools

          We have the issue of actually financing to schools. The government and the legal institutions do finance of the school. The government is conduct by the leading political party. The bureaucracy which is known as the permanent government. So the education system all depends upon the government and the political parties. The constitution is constructed and can be changed according to the interest of the government and the congress so the parties' main principal influences the thinking and behavior of the government. The main stream of the government and the constitution leads to the education system's role. Which finally tends to the educational institutions value on the nation and society's view on it.
         All the investment on the education and school. The form of the education. The design of the curriculum all depends upon the government and legal institutions. The society's needs ant aspiration are carried by the schools and the government. According to the need of the society government implements the plans and roadmaps according to those roadmaps and plans educators design the curriculum and implements in the school that's these all are based upon the government and needs of the society. Finally it makes changes on the society which includes school, government, parties and the legal institutions. 

4.2.5 Influence of community on education

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