Manipulation Of The Socialization Aspect Of Schools

Manipulation of the Socialization Aspect of Schools Kierra Snyder Education tends to become a first priority in the lives of young people, and as it does it assumes some of the responsibilities of socialization previously held within the family unit. One major aspect of this is the development of respect for peers and their individual cultures and identities. In this day and age this form of socialization is becoming more important as it teaches children to accept those around them, elping to prepare these children for the cultural diversity they will undoubtedly be surrounded with in their adult lives.

This socialization also assists in reaffirming morals that may have been taught at home, if not supplying a new set of guidelines for their new environment at school. In my opinion this socialization process can and should become the most direct teaching of general morality for our youth, and by creating an emphasis on appropriate social interaction we can improve children''s ense of conscience while subsequently teaching both self-love and freedom of expression.

Socialization, in its most basic form, is the process of learning through social interaction and is the perfect vector for teaching morality. Most early socialization outside of the home occurs in a school setting. This can make it incredibly easy to standardize moral learning in the same ways we do instruction of math or history. Most of our morals are based on appropriate human social interactions; we shouldn''t injure or kill other people, steal other''s things, or mistreat he people who are there to help us, and we should always respect our environment.

All of these morals are important to maintaining a peaceful environment in schools, making them very easy to enforce in our children''s consciences. Once a punishment is observed for an action it becomes a deterrent and most children will have a natural aptitude for learning morality simply because they fear the repercussions of their words and actions. This can be easily modeled with properly supervised social interaction to teach how to respect those around us.

If we focus in on the aspect of teaching respect for others as a moral within the school systems, the argument can be made that this is where there is a tendency for educators to slack off on moral teaching. It is generally accepted and even expected that people should have respect for others cultures and individuality in the adult world, but this is not well taught or explained to most children. They leave school assuming that the entire world operates with the same clique mentality that they witnessed for the past thirteen years.

This is pretty destructive in most cases as it means that these children have higher tendencies toward bullying and hazing practices, and beyond that shun and shame those that express a sense of self or any outward signs of individuality. Teaching children that this is morally wrong at a younger age may even circumvent the cycle of abuse that leads to self-harm and suicidal tendencies for many teenagers. It must also be taught that self-harm is not an acceptable escape tactic for those feeling uncomfortable in their skin.

The tendency for younger and younger hildren to pick up self-harm as a coping mechanism is alarming. This problem is composed primarily of young girls that are so desperate to be thin they''re willing to risk their lives. This is why we need appropriate moral learning in our schools; it could save thousands of lives to Just teach our children that they shouldn''t mock others for any reason and that they should respect themselves and their own bodies. It would be beneficial to teach self-love to our children as another moral, this may be especially helpful in lowering teen suicide rates.

It should certainly be kept in mind that the Bible is not the only source of morals to learn, and perhaps should not be emphasized in moral teachings. Altogether we need to teach children how to treat all people morally. There could be a major benefit in teaching children to regret disrespecting themselves and others. I agree with Immanuel Kant''s view of the human conscience as inevitable and that the more it is ignored the weaker it gets. I don''t see how we can go on allowing the future generations to weaken their consciences by bullying.

I don''t want to see where the world would be in twenty years if all of the children in our schools were no longer taught the most basic rules of social interactions. Kant does not go so far as to say that the conscience can be taught to Judge certain actions or thoughts as wrong and requiring regret, but I believe it does, and should be used to help develop better social norms in American culture at least for positivity towards all other living things. Education systems should include the most basic of morals and ones that teach our children to love who they are.