Role of Education in Social Change

1. • B.Ed.
Contemporary Indian Education, Gender & Society.
• Education &Social Change.
Role & Limitation of Education in Social Change.
Created By: Monika Tayade
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B.Ed.

2. Role & Limitations of Education in Social
Change.
Before independence India remained backward &
underdeveloped.
As compare to other country.
Free India follow Constitution.
All citizens enjoy full freedom irrespective of color,
caste, creed.
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3. There are laws against untouchability or any other
kind of social or economic discrimination.
Government enacted laws to promote widow
marriage, against dowry system.
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4. Role of Education
There is provision of universal, free & compulsory
education.
Varied educational facilities are provided to
students.
Adult education is being focused.
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5. 1. Imparts knowledge
• Increase individual
capacity.
• Increase area & scope of
knowledge.
• It opens investigations &
researches.
• It brings about changes in
material & non-material
culture.
2. Protects eternal values
In spite of social
changes education
protects eternal (moral
& spiritual in nature)
values.
People in general
keeps faith in these
values.
Education propagates
& promotes these
eternal values.
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6. 3. Helps to analyze
change
• It gives knowledge to
people about good &
bad change.
• E.g.: Women
education, gender
equality.
4. Promotes capacity to
welcome & accept
changes.
• It prepares mentality of
people.
• To welcome &adopt
desirable changes.
• It make people aware
about its utility &
desirability.
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7. 5. Evaluation of social
change
• Society is under
transformation.
• Education lays down
required standards &
criteria of values.
• Desirable social changes
are propagated.
• Undesirable are discarded
& decried.
6. Aids the coming of new
social change.
• It strives to banish social
evils.
• Blind customs & traditions.
• It conduct various social
reformation projects, social
services schemes.
• E.g.: child marriage,
malnutrition.
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8. 7. Transmission of
culture.
• Transmits national culture.
• Lends stability and
continuity to society.
• Education is conservative,
consolidating, stabilizing
and creative force.
8. Promotes unity & total
integration.
• It tries to solve conflicts
between various groups
and sections of the
society.
• It advocate feeling of unity
in diversity.
• Educating people about
caste rivalry, communal
feuds, linguistic conflicts
and regional discords.
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9. 9. Maintain human and
social relations.
• Maintain human relation in
time of social laxity,
disunity & discord among
people.
• Consolidate & maintain
human relations.
10. Education of social
change.
• Promotes knowledge &
understanding.
• If understanding is
developed people readily
accepts the social
changes.
• Helps to eliminate
recreational complexes of
people.
• E.g.: Family planning,
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10. 11. Leadership role of
social change.
• Guide people for social
change .
• Make people capable to
initiate social change.
• Make people aware of
their own true potential.
• Promotes social welfare.
• Prepares people for
leadership roles
12. Removal of obstacles.
• Informs people about
importance of social
change.
• Tries to remove mental
reservations & complexes.
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11. 13. Improves standard of
people.
• Raises standard of living.
• Increases working
capacity.
• Leads to more production
& income.
• When standard of living
improves social change
takes place automatically.
14. Democratic values.
• Education counsels
student that freedom does
not mean they should
follow the wrong path.
• Democratic values like,
equality, freedom,
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12. Role of School in Social Change
• 1. Relation with social order:
• The size, form, nature & organizational set up
of school depends upon social order.
• School tries to realize aims, ideals, values &
traditions of social order.
• School conforms to needs & values of society.
• School is bound to reflect changes that occur in
society from time to time.
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13. 2. Influence of National Policy
• School cooperates whole heartedly in satisfying
the needs and aspirations of the nation.
• E.g.: Our national need is to increase
production of goods.
• So schools are imparting scientific &
technological education.
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14. 3. Simplification of social & cultural
order.
• Social &culture pattern varies in Indian society.
• A school tries to simplify & categorize these
various and complex patterns.
• Preserves the social &cultural pattern to use
them for understanding by the children .
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15. 4. Development of capacities &
efficiencies.
• Looks at future also.
• Foresee future needs of the society.
• Tries to develop more and more capacities &
efficiencies of individuals.
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16. 5. Meeting the economic needs of the
society.
• Promotes economic efficiency of the
individuals.
• Individuals achieve their own economic
prosperity.
• Thus it add to the prosperity of the society.
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17. 6. Promoting continuity
• Preserves cultural heritage.
• It transmits the heritage from one generation to
another generation.
• Thus there is continuity.
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18. 7. Contact with wide environment.
• Environment is wide.
• As compare to family or neighborhood.
• School provides with diverse activities,
programs & experiences.
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19. 8. Glorious future
• School tries to plan very bright and glorious
future.
• Preserves the glories of the past.
• Also tries to make society achieve greater and
greater heights of glory and fame.
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20. Role of Teacher in
Social Change
Related as body & soul.
Teacher can initiate & promote social change.
Only when she knows well the need of the society.
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21. Assignment.
• Role of Teacher in Social change.
• Explain the role of teacher in social change.
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