Key Processes of Education

Education is the systematic process of enabling students, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, attain knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, values, and learning habits that will enable them to live their lives according to those values. Educational systems include formal education, training, teaching, research and facilitated discussion. Education has several components and these are discussed below. The processes of delivery of education may be categorized as institutional, participative, direct and independent.

Facultative Education is delivered through various means. It can either take place in terms of the direct method, which is where education is achieved by the teachers and students together, or it may take place through institutional education, which occurs through the participation of persons other than the teachers such as parents, guardians and other professionals who have a right to participate in the teaching process. Facultative education involves a considerable amount of time and energy and teachers usually have to work with other people. On the other hand, it is also not entirely dependent on the resources available in a particular community and can be adapted to meet the requirements of a particular locality.

Directed Learning is a method by which students are taught directly by a teacher or instructors in a classroom. This type of learning process takes place during classes, homework, field trips, or in other formal settings. In the informal settings, this type of learning process takes place through discussions in classrooms, camps, after-school programs, homes, clubs or tutoring sessions. It can either take place in a classroom or in a camp or any other place where people can have face-to-face contact.