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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS VOL 3, NO 2
Socio-cultural factors refer to the cultural aspects of people which include: belief, aspiration ,
norms, values of the societies or communities to which education is to be provided. There are
some other aspects which include: health consciousness, population growth rate, age distribution,
career attitudes and emphasis on safety. Culture is also defined as the system of shared beliefs,
values, customs, behaviors and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world
and with one another, and that are transmitted from one generation to another through teaching and
learning processes. As such educational policy makers should give considerable regard to sociocultural
background of the people in educational policy formulation and execution and this priority
should be given to areas of curriculum design, development and recruitment of teachers, in such a
way that, the policy and philosophy of education designed should carter for the need and aspiration
of the society in particular and the nation at large.
Emphasis should be given to teacher training; this is because at different time and in different part
of the world teachers had been championing the role of disseminators of literacy, guardians of
culture, vicars of morality, architects of the ‘good citizen´or good personality. In more recent
times, schools have been allocated the task of achieving social equality, overcoming material
disadvantage and eradicating prejudice. Teachers and instructional designer need to be capable of
diagnosing the needs of the individual learner and know how to meet these when discovered
(Wood, 1995).
Environmental factors are worthy of note in the event of school construction and this consideration
should include: environmental factors as such ecology, weather, climate, and climate change which
may have especial effect on the educational development. Furthermore, lack of growing
awareness of the potential impacts of climate change is affecting some educational structures and
operational timing, as such policy makers should have put into consideration while making
educational planning in order to avoid some negative unforeseen circumstances of massive
distraction of buildings and teaching/learning materials that may result from wind or water.
Religious factors refer to the system of beliefs based on humanity's attempt to explain the universe
and natural phenomena, often involving one or more deities or other supernatural forces and also
requiring or binding adherents to follow prescribed religious obligations. Two identifying features
of religions are to some extent require faith and seek to organize and influence the thoughts and
actions of their adherents.The Influence of Religion on Social development and importance of
religion as a factor in social evolution, particularly in tribal organization and race differentiation,
has been acknowledged by nearly all scholars of sociology. Some have placed so much emphasis
upon its importance as to lead to the conclusion that it is the primal influence in securing primitive
social unity. Others have either ignored it or insisted that it has retarded social progress. Neither of
these views is correct. While it has had a strong influence in cementing the social group, in
bringing about its unity, and in developing social forms and social order, nevertheless it is not the
fundamental factor of social organization in primitive society.
On the other hand, it has been asserted that it retards the progress of social life and that it is
possible for philosophers to devise some better agency than religious organization for the
advancement of civilization. Whatever may be the degree of truth in these assertions, it must not
be forgotten that the careful student of the historical growth of society will find religion an ever
present factor, indeed a force that must be reckoned with everywhere. In this respect it works
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