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Discuss the the role of education in social change and development.

      

Discuss the the role of education in social change and development.

  

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Francis
a) Schools can be viewed as agents of social change. Education can facilitate reforms. Education facilitates technological innovation.
b) Education involves the training of the labour force in new skills required by an expanding technology.
c) Education may be used to break down useless traditional attitudes and to weaken resistance to positive change.
d) Education encourages or promotes social mobility and allows new elites to threaten and overcome the old.
e) Through education, people can acquire positive values, perceptions, aspirations and attitudes.
f) One of the dominant themes in educational reform has been the ex* tension of educational opportunities to wider sectors of society. In general, this has taken the form of free schooling, scholarships and maintenance grants for needy students, and equal opportunities for all classes in society.
g) Education is directly affected by globalization. Learners should be taught how to cope with this.
h) Education influences economic change because of its role in the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge. There is hardly any economic development without education.

francis1897 answered the question on August 22, 2022 at 12:32


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