As you think about the four basic purposes of school: academic (intellectual), political and civic purposes, socialization, and economic purposes, what do you think?

We call the groups that promote or enforce social norms and roles agents of socialization. Gender socialization occurs through four major agents of socialization: family, education, peer groups, and mass media. Each agent reinforces gender roles by creating and maintaining expectations for gender-specific behavior.

Main purpose of education is to educate individuals within society, to prepare and qualify them for work in economy as well as to integrate people into society and teach them values and morals of society. Role of education is means of socializing individuals and to keep society smoothing and remain stable.

It helps people become better citizens, get a better-paid job, shows the difference between good and bad. Education shows us the importance of hard work and, at the same time, helps us grow and develop. Thus, we are able to shape a better society to live in by knowing and respecting rights, laws, and regulations.

Education is very necessary for each and everyone in order to improve knowledge, way of living as well as social and economic status throughout the life. It helps a person to get knowledge and improve confidence level all through the life. It plays a great role in our career growth as well as in the personal growth.

Environmental education: Ecological in balances have drown the attentions of intelligence today. So, looking at the environmental problems study of environment education has great importance. 10. Educational technology: It is very recent branch that has come under the scope of education.

Scope of education can be defined as availability of different forms of educational operations in terms of different learning environments, major focus of the study of knowledge or the mode of imparting education.

Its theme is life. 3) Thus education is concerned with the whole man – his whole life comes under the purview of education. 4) Education is broader than obtaining knowledge. 5) Education influences our physical, mental, social emotional, ethical, creative and spiritual development.

“The act of acquiring or modifying knowledge, skills, and attitudes.” With this definition of learning in view, we can surmise that the scope of learning is vast. It goes beyond a set of formal activities designed to influence the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of a specific learner segment.