The aim of this paper is to analyze the concept of adjustment of general and educational contexts.
The term implies man's intellectual reaction to the world. By this we mean he has some proper relationship to other people and the environment. Thus,...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the concept of adjustment of general and educational contexts.
The term implies man's intellectual reaction to the world. By this we mean he has some proper relationship to other people and the environment. Thus, it differs from conformity which signifies a situations in which there is no active action of man to control the environment expect to adapt to it. The various human conditions which he confronts are the natural, interpersonal, economic, social, and political. It is in the interpersonal and societal world that the meaning of adjustment is most controversial. Here we see the normative problem raised.
Education consists of a family of activities which produce the educated man. the educated man outlined is he who shows human excellence in intellectual, moral, aesthetic and spiritual development. An argument is also made about the content of education with various forms of knowledge. These are derived from the fundamental dimensions of reality. What follows concerns the nature of teaching with the emphasis on debate and discussion in the classroom initiated by the teacher.
How do we interpret the meaning of adjustment when the term is used in educational context? Here we distinguish a direct educational situation from non-educational ones such as social and economic conditions. Education directly touches human development while social and economic conditions are merely instrumental and indirect to it. Thus the concept of adjustment in the educational context implies the learner's active participation in the educational process for his intellectual and moral development.