Introduction to the Educative Process

        The educative process refers to a series of steps in which a learner is able to transmit his or her knowledge of a certain field of study to a student so that the tradition of knowledge will be passed on from one generation to another. Below are some of the important characteristics of the educative process:

• Ideally, the best stimulus for the learner to absorb knowledge is to first and foremost have interest in the material being learned, rather than external factors such as getting good grades or gaining a competitive advantage in academic positioning.

• The principle agents of instruction and learning itself are the actual human teachers that transmit the knowledge, rather than teaching devices such as computers to teaching models that merely serve as an aid to the educative process.

• The most important objective of learning is that it will be of use to learners in their daily lives and most especially when these students graduate and take on jobs in the real world. The act or process of learning should not merely take learners somewhere because this implies that learning stops when in fact it doesn't; it should allow students to venture further more easily knowing that they have valuable knowledge to guide them.

• In order to fully master the important theories, concepts and ideas of a certain field of study, the student does not only have the grasp its general principles; he or she also has to develop an attitude of learning and inquiry, guessing and hunches, to always question the way things work around him or her, and to conduct investigations in solving problems even while doing it independently.

• Unless details of the subject or concept being learned is placed into a pattern that is well-structured, it tends to be forgotten soon enough.

My Assignment on The Meaning of The Educative Process

        My baptism of fire as a first year bachelor science in education student was the assignment we had to write a research paper about the educative process or also known as the education process, which is a very broad and comprehensive topic. Since we had only one week to research, write and submit my research paper on the education process, I decided to focus on a simple theme or ideas for my paper, which is the meaning of the education process.

        The educative process or education process is usually associated with the general concept of the philosophies, policies, practices, methodologies and outcomes that would influence and affect the process of education. Since education is generally defined as the act or process of imparting and acquiring general or particular knowledge or skills on the mind, character, and physical ability of an individual or individuals, the education process should help in simplifying and carrying out the act or process imparting and acquiring the knowledge or skills. I have learned that the process is the systematic series of actions or activities that would lead to the learning, teaching and schooling of the individual whether he is the teacher or the student.

         The educative process could go through several stages or steps such as: the teacher having the goals or objectives for educating his students; the tools and other materials that a teacher has to use in the effective education of his students; the policies set by government bodies and non-government organisations on how they could create and carry out actions that would contribute to the education and learning of both the teachers and the students; the goals or objectives for the student in learning and why he should learn; and public and private support such as funding and resources for educational institutions that would educate the students.