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Role of education

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.

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• B.Ed. Contemporary Indian Education, Gender & Society. • Education &Social Change. Role & Limitation of Education in Social Change. Created By: Monika Tayade Thursday, October 14, 2021 1 B.Ed.
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 2
There are laws against untouchability or any other kind of social or economic discrimination. Government enacted laws to promote widow marriage, against dowry system. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 3
Role of Education There is provision of universal, free & compulsory education. Varied educational facilities are provided to students. Adult education is being focused. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 4
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 5
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 6
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 7
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 8
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, Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 9
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 10
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, Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 11
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 12
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 13
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 . Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 14
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 15
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 16
6. Promoting continuity • Preserves cultural heritage. • It transmits the heritage from one generation to another generation. • Thus there is continuity. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 17
7. Contact with wide environment. • Environment is wide. • As compare to family or neighborhood. • School provides with diverse activities, programs & experiences. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 18
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 19
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. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 20
Assignment. • Role of Teacher in Social change. • Explain the role of teacher in social change. Thursday, October 14, 2021 B.Ed. 21
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