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About Education

Education is a complex discipline that incorporates reasoning, analysis, evaluation, experimentation, observation and personal reflection. Education is the process by which people acquire knowledge, skills, judgments, attitudes, values, beliefs, and practices to facilitate learning. Educational methods include training, teaching, research and directed practice. There is also the field of education that studies learning and how people learn. These fields include educational psychology, schooling, curriculum development, education theory, and training and coaching.

Education generally refers to the process through which people acquire knowledge, skills and judgment to facilitate learning. Education involves both social and personal science and is concerned with people’s knowledge, learning and thinking patterns as well as their interactions with each other and the environment. Education has many aspects and can be visual, oral, manual or representational. The most popular form of education is schooling where the objective is the development of competent persons and thus enhancing the general social and intellectual development of the nation.

Education curriculum development covers various strategies for the efficient teaching and learning of a specific subject or topic in a specified school environment. Education curriculum development usually includes instructional aids such as books, reading materials, computer media and other tools and supporting equipment for delivering knowledge successfully. Other tools used for developing education curriculum are teacher guides, written materials, films, computer-based programs and multimedia.