Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Education for change

Unit – 4, F

Education for social change

We know the necessity of education in the present modern World .Due to modern science new researchers and techniques, revolutionary changes are ocuuring in all fields of human activities. Education imparts the knowledge of these latest developments to the individuals and provides adequate inspiration for their use in which I n turn bring about the creation of new ideals values and goals which society gradually adopts. So education is for social change According to Ottaway- “Education brings about social changes of very important nature.”
We can justify education for social change on the basis of following reasons.
1] Need/demand of the hour
In the present swift changing World an individual must be educated individual only then and then he can cop up with the step changes occurring in the present world. Due to researches ,new invention and technology today our lives are full fledged with challenges and in order to face challenges occurring in the World of science and technology have been bringing changes in our day to day lives and only education can help us top live with the arrival of challenges in our lives. It is the education through which we can update or develop ourselves. So education is the need of the hour.
2] Requirement of training
In order to bring awareness in oneself one must have training or practice which is only provided by Education. Education trains an educand and prepares him a tough trainee on the basis of which he can cop-up with the challenges inherent in life. Through training one can develop him. And as we know Education is for all around development of a child so that he can develop his cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills, and live peacefully with honour. Eduction provides training / practice to an individual and makes him who brings change, transforms change one generation to other generations. So, in a way education brings social change by giving training to n individual.
3] Identifying changes /problems
In order to understand or identify the nature of social change or any problem existed in one’s life, one must educate himself. Through education he can decide the nature of social change what is right and wrong? Or he can analyze social change .So education must needed in the world of science and technology to develop identify changes occurring in the present world and problems as well.
4] Change of life style/value system
Everyone has a particular life style and value system but if he lives on the basis o ftraditional culture and way of thinking he may fail to face th echallanges occurring in the world.So he has to change nis life style and value system and for him he must educate himself or he has top take education because education is a system which makes an individual aware about his goal/aim and how can he reach to his goal. So education provides an exposure to an individual to flourish and he can redefine changes which exist in life.
5] Creating balanced individual and society
Due to modern swift changes, one must be balanced individual in balanced society. There is only a source which invests balanced individual .i.e.education. Education makes an individual a productive citizen and balanced social beings that brings social change.
6] Equipping the individual for facing the challenges
With the help of education an educand develops himself.He can empower himself with deffferent values, way of thinking and new perception only through education and only then and then he can keep pace with challenges or changes occruing in the present world.e.g.computer. In order to be computer literate. One must take computer education and than he can make his life as faster as computer.
Above all reasons are depend on education and thare are the reasons derived from present modern social change.Hence , education is a means to continuity as well as to change and progress.On the one hand . it is influenced by social changes but on the other it must keep a level amid chaos and guide future emancipation.

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