EDUCATION: A CHANGE AGENT TO TRANSFORM THE SOCIETY
Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
World of science, technology, business, industry and politics is growing rapidly. To keep up with these developments, the importance of synergizing our philosophy of education with the modern philosophy of education in terms of developmental needs of knowledge, skills and attitudes or upgrading the knowledge and skills is increasing day by day and consequently the demand of critical agents for specific purposes to satisfy various global needs of learners is rising. The entire society joining hands together can play a role to bring change. Society needs change agents question arises who are those change agents? The study revolved around searching those agents and the role they play to transform society. The findings of the reveal that there are three major pillars which effectively play the role of ‘Change Agent’. Firstly, under individual influence sphere, one can identify and embrace a society appreciating and acknowledging technology (visual and print media) as a cardinal aiding agent in bringing up communication gaps. Secondly, social forces such as culture, valuing potential people, time and most importantly teaching community. Hillman mentions in his book ‘The Change Agents’ that culture is shaped by 7 mountains of cultural influence such as: media, arts, government, business, entertainment, family, education and Church and the third one is a teacher education acquainting, teaching learning community with modern developments in education and capacity building of the teachers. Together these three factors can transform the society as per global community
Authors and Affiliations
Kamal Haider, Parveen Mehboob, Safia Niazi
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