Education and Socialization of Adults

Pre-requisites: There are no particular requirements.

Course objectives: Critical analysis and research of the process of socialization of adults and defining the role and the function of education in those processes.

Course description: Theoretical course: Critical analysis of categorical terms of adult educational science: education/upbringing, education/schooling, learning, development and socialization; Different theoretical approaches to the relation between education and socialization of adults; Differences in socialization of children and adults and different roles of education in those processes; The relation between primary and secondary socialization; Phases of socialization of adults; Socialization and resocialization; Trends of socialization of adults: family, professional and socialization for living in the community; Education as a formative and an integrative component of socialization; Practical course: Analysis and evaluation of educational programmes and interventions in the process and trends of socialisztion of adults.

Learning Outcomes: Student understands the relation between education and development in the process of socialization of adults, is capable of researching informative, formative and integrative functions of education in socialization trends: family, parental, marital, professional and socialization for life in the community.

Education and Socialization of Adults

Pre-requisites: There are no particular requirements.

Course objectives: Critical analysis and research of the process of socialization of adults and defining the role and the function of education in those processes.

Course description: Theoretical course: Critical analysis of categorical terms of adult educational science: education/upbringing, education/schooling, learning, development and socialization; Different theoretical approaches to the relation between education and socialization of adults; Differences in socialization of children and adults and different roles of education in those processes; The relation between primary and secondary socialization; Phases of socialization of adults; Socialization and resocialization; Trends of socialization of adults: family, professional and socialization for living in the community; Education as a formative and an integrative component of socialization; Practical course: Analysis and evaluation of educational programmes and interventions in the process and trends of socialisztion of adults.

Learning Outcomes: Student understands the relation between education and development in the process of socialization of adults, is capable of researching informative, formative and integrative functions of education in socialization trends: family, parental, marital, professional and socialization for life in the community.

Literature/Reading:

• Medić S, Obrazovanje i socijalizacija odraslih, Beograd, 1993.
• Finch J, Education as social policy, Longman 1984.
• Bauman Z, Globalization: The Human Consequences, New York, itd: Columbia University Press, Cambridge, itd: Polity Press, 1998
• Goslin D.A, Handbook of socialization: Theory and research, Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1973.
• Brim, O.G, Wheeler, S, Socialization after childhood: two essays, New York: Wiley, 1966
• Clausen, J.A (ed.), Socialization and society, New York, Little Brown & Company. 1973.
• Ivić, I, «Razvojna psihologija zrelog doba», u: Kultura, br. 76-77, Zavod za proučavanje kulturnog razvitka, Beograd 1987.
• LeVine, R.A, «Culture, Personality and Socialization. An Evolutionary View», in: D. Goslin (ed.) Handbook of socialization theory and research», Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1973.