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Characteristics Of Dysfunctional Education

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Introduction
“Education is a conscious and an intentional effort to create an atmosphere of learning to learners so that they are actively developing the potential for him/her to have a self-control, personality, intelligence, noble character and skills needed for themselves and the society” (Law No. 20 on National Education System, 2003). But this cannot be achieved if the education is dysfunctional. South Africa is one of the countries experiencing this crisis of dysfunctional education.
In this assignment, I am going to use the African Philosophy which states that one has to help the other in order to do well. I will approach this assignment by focusing on the local, rural and urban schools. My arguments on this assignment will be based on the dysfunctional schools
I will analyse the following questions and I will apply my view and my experience on this assignment: 1.what is dysfunctional education? 2. What is the characteristics of dysfunctional education? 3. Who is responsible of the dysfunctional education? 4. What can be done to improve the dysfunctional education?

Main contents
1. What is dysfunctional education system?
Dysfunctional education is the education system that fails to perform adequately as expected and show good results in terms of learning ability and teaching ability. (Shipengrower & Conway, 1998) said that dysfunctional schools are schools that are in a state of chaos. Dysfunctional schools is also known as failing schools and they are usually

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