The document discusses the role and limitations of education in bringing about social change in India. It notes that after independence, India adopted a constitution that promotes equality and bans discrimination. Education plays a key role in social change by imparting knowledge, protecting values, helping analyze desirable changes, and promoting social reform movements. The document also outlines how schools and teachers can facilitate social change by conforming to societal needs and values, developing skills, meeting economic needs, and planning for future progress.

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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