1. TOPIC IMPACT OF SOCIAL, ECONOMICAL, POLITICAL AND
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES ON EDUCATION
CURRENT TRENDS & ISSUES IN EDUCATION
EDUCATION

2. “Education is the
natural, harmonious
and progressive
development of
man’s innate
powers”.
According to
JOHANN HEINRICH
PESTALOZZI,

3. “Education is the
development of all those
capacities in the
individual which will
enable him to control his
environment and fulfill
his possibilities.”
According to
JOHN DEWEY,

4. “Education is the all
round drawing out
of the best in child
and man – Body,
Mind and Spirit”.
According
to MAHATMA
GANDHI,

5. IMPACT OF SOCIAL CHANGES
ON EDUCATION

6. Education and social change
Education as a instrument of
social change
Education as an effect of social
change

7.  Education initiates the social change and gives them
direction and purpose.
 Education creates the social reformers and leaders who
consciously make all the efforts to bring about social
changes.
 Education determines the nature of social changes, which
ought to be brought about.
 Education prepares the individual for social changes. It
brings a change in the need – dispositions and also
frustrations with the status.
Relationship between education and
social change

8. “Education and social change is a two-way
traffic. While education provides, transmits
and disseminates the whole culture. Social
change is the instrument and pre-condition of
educational thought”.
According to V R TANEJA

9. Civilization change
Cultural change
Change in social relationship
Types of social changes

10. Two-Fold Problem of Education in
Relation to Social Change
Does this change take place in society stand for progress?
Is it in right direction?
1. Adjustment to the change in situation
2. creation of new order or education for social progress
Conservation of social heritage and culture
Progress of civilization

11. Dewey says’ “ by various agencies unintentional
and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and
seemingly alien beings into robust trustee of its own
recourses and ideals. Education is thus a fostering,
venturing and cultivating process. All of these words
means that implies attention to the condition to the
growth”.

12. Simplifying and ordering the environment
Purifying and idealizing environment
Wider and better balance environment
Schools as miniature communities
Educational Implications of
Education as a Social Function

13. Present education needs
Five new linkages
Past with the living present existing realities
Urban elite and rural people through education
opportunities
Youth need a close-up sense of belonging and fuller
involvement with society
Science and spiritual impulse
World of formal education
English of instruction and social change
English medium school and social change.
Education and Social Change in India

14. Economic conditions, economic policies and
economic system are the important factors that
constitute educational environment.
Collaboration with foreign universities exchange of
students and faculty members from one county to
another country.
Trends in domestic trade, export, inflation, money
supply, foreign exchange reserved growth of
industry, agriculture and services sector determine
status of education.
Loans for higher studies and educational institutions
Economic changes

15. Funding for education
Investment in education
Strategies for resources
mobilization
Economic factors and education

16.  Consultancy
 Research and development services
 Short term specialized courses
 Technology transfer
 Running continuing education courses on commercial basis
 Developing workshops as training cum production centers
 Corpus fund
 Utilizations of available resources by industries
Strategies for resources mobilization

17. Government policies in education are based
on prevailing environment.
Dual degree course, job oriented courses,
vocational courses, short term courses
relating to information technology
Uniform curriculum
Uniformity of conducting exams
Financial support
Political changes

18. Political environment
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
National Policy on Education
District Primary Education Program
Mid-Day Meal Scheme
Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana

19. It is recently introduced in selected school in India.
The primary objective of this program is to provide
required infrastructure in schools for providing basic
education to children.
Increasing enrolment rate
Reducing drop out.
Sarva shiksha abhiyan

20. Streamlining higher secondary
education
Centralized admission for
professional education
Medium of instruction
Reservation policy
National policy on education

21. Educational Technology
B C Mathis
Education technology refers to the development of set systemic
methods, practical knowledge for the designing, operating and testing
in schools.
Deceoco
Education technology is in the form of detailed
application of the psychology of learning to practical
teaching problems.

22. It is the application of scientific principles of
education.
it lays stress on development of methods and
techniques for effective teaching.
It stresses the organization of learning situations for
effective realization of the goals of education.
It emphasizes the designing and measuring
instruments for testing learning outcomes.
Involves input ,output and process aspect of
education.
Nature &characteristics of
educational technology

23. It is not confined to the use of electronic media in
education, it includes system approach also.
It is important media of communication.
It is not taken a synonym to audio visual aids in
education.
It is very comprehensive term and is not to be viewed
in terms of its parts or processes.it includes
Instructional, Teaching technology, Programmed
learning, micro teaching and system analysis.
Nature &characteristics c0nti.....

24. Hillard Jason has started the following major
objectives of educational technology.
1. Transmitting information
2. Serving as role
3. Assisting the practice of specific skills
4. Contributing to the provision of feed back
General objectives of educational
technology

25. 1. The need to reach more students.
2. To reach them with an improved range of
learning materials.
3. To offer greater opportunities for
independent study.
4. To permit at least a limited student response.
Mackenzie and others describe following four
main objectives of educational technology

26. 1. Identification of educational needs and asirations of the
community
2. Determination of the aims of education, broad strategies
and structure of education
3. Developing a suitable curriculum with interaction of arts,
human values and sciences.
4. Identification of material resources and strategies for the
desired aims of education
5. Developing certain models leading to improvement in the
process of teaching learning.
macro-level objectives of educational
technology

27. 6.Identification of major constraints in the environment
and the ways and means of tackling them.
7.Assisting in extending vocational opportunities to
masses especially neglected sector of society./
8.Managing the entire educational system covering
planning, implementation and evaluation phases
macro-level objectives of educational
technology (conti…)

28. Identifying and analyzing the characteristics and
educational needs of the students
Determining the specific classroom objectives and
starting them in behavioral terms
Analyzing the contents of instruction and organizing
them in proper sequence.
Identifying the nature of the interaction of the sub-
systems like students performance or change in
behavior.
Identifying the available teaching-learning materials
and resources.
Macro-level objectives of educational
technology

29. Evaluating the effectiveness of the class room
teaching in terms of the students performance or
change in behavior.
Providing appropriate feed back to the students as
well as teachers to bring modification in the teaching
learning process.
Macro-level objectives of educational
technology(conti….)

30. 1. Technology related to general
educational administration and
management.
2. Technology related to general
educational testing
3. Technology related to the instructional
process.
Scope of educational technology

31. Mackenic and others(1980)classify the devices on basic
of information resources.
1. Television, language laboratory and other audio-
visual resources.
2. Feedback devices including machines.
3. Reprographic equipment like computers‘ and
programmed learning material.
Percival and Ellington(1984)classify techniques.
1. Mass instructional techniques
2. Induvidized instructional techniques.
Classification of educational
technology

32. Identification of educational goals and objectives of
the community.
Developing appropriate curriculum for the
achievement of stipulated goals.
Developing suitable teaching learning materials
Analyzing the process of teaching learning materials.
Selecting and developing proper teaching learning
strategies for obtaining optimum results.
Developing and selecting appropriate audio-visual
aids
Functions of educational technology

33. Utilizing effectively the hardware and software
media.
Providing essential feed back and control through
evaluation.
Preparing teacher s in the new technology of
teaching.
Functions(conti…..)

34. 1. Individualized instruction
2. Meeting the problem of mass
education
3. Equalizing educational opportunity
4. Providing continuing education
Contribution of educational
Improvement in quality of teaching
technology

35. Technological changes
Artificial intelligence
CD-ROM
Dial Access
E-Mail
Teleconferencing or
Interactive television
Telelecture
Teletutorial
Teleseminar
Internet
Wireless class room
microphones
Interactive white boards
Video conferencing

36. Current trends in education
 Paedocentric
 Teachers Role
 Activity centered
 Creative education
 Community participation
 More reliance on technology
 Increase acceptance of non-formal
type of education
 Restructuring traditional program
 Increase opportunity for higher
studies
Methods of appraisal
Innovation in teaching and
learning
Educational quality
assurance
Emergence of individual as
a teaching unit
Commercialization of
education and presence of
foreign universities

37. The teaching and learning process is largely directed by the
nature and needs of learner
The basic shift in emphasis from the subject of instruction to
nature &needs of learner is based on math etic principle.
Math tics is the science of behavior of pupil undergoing the
process of learning.
Educationist like Rousseay ,Petalozzi ,John dewey and others
have contributed to the development of child centered
education.
Participatory approach of teaching.
Paedocentric

38. Instructional activities with the realization of specific and clear
cut the learning outcomes has inevitably to a reassessment.
The model of teacher as the pivotal and dominate figure in
education, presenting a variety of information to pupils has
practically disappeared.
Dictator to friend.
To prepare student for learning by enabling them to actively
participate in teaching learning process rather than simply
spoon feeding.
Creation of environment.
Teachers role

39. Current issues in education
Discipline and security
Bilingual education
Mainstreaming
Unemployment
Poverty

40. Trends and Issues in Indian Education
Elementary education
Non-formal education
Universalization of
primary education
Mahila-Samakhya
Vocational education
Integrated education for
disabled children's
Navodaya Vidyalaya
Kendriya Vidhyalaya
University grand
commission
Indira Gandhi National
Open University

41. Free and compulsory education of satisfactory quality should be
provided to all children up to age of 14 yrs.
Target ; 1) Universal Access
2) Universal Retention
3) Universal Achievement
Strategies:
1. Creating parental awareness and community mobilization
2. Involvement of communities
3. Economic incentives
4. Improvement in the content and process of schooling
5. District primary education program me.
6. National program me of nutritional support.
Elementary education

42. The government of India , Department of education
running since 1979-1980, a program me of NFE for
children of age group who remain out side the formal
system due to various reasons.
Focus of scheme is only educationally backwards
status .
It also covers urban slums, tribal, desert areas.
Non formal education

43. Education for women's quality
Creating an environment for women to seek
knowledge and information with a view to bringing
about a change in their perception about themselves
and society.
Mahila samakhya(1989)

44. Thank you