Education and Social Change

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This paper discusses whether education can be used to foster social change and if so, how this could be achieved. The paper argues that education can be used to foster positive social change. However, it also presents the opinion that education imitates and reflects society, it does not create it and that according to this view it is not possible for education to change society.

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"Education and Social Change Can education be used to foster social change? And if so, how could this be achieved? For example, could education be used to deliberately improve society, or to deliberately make it worse? This paper will argue that education can be used to foster positive social change. We first need to consider an important theoretical question. Does education change society, or does society change education? Emile Durkheim argued that education merely reflects society, stating that education: is only the image and reflection of society. It imitates and reproduces the latter, it does not create it. Because of this, Durkheim maintained that it is not possible for education to change society."

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