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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Can education be considered as an agent of social change? In what manner can it establish a new social order?

  • UPSC 1985
  • Education System and Social Change

The question has two parts, and the second is the harder one. That education accompanies social change is uncontroversial; whether it can found a different social order is a claim about pedagogy, curriculum and access, not about enrolment numbers. The thinkers who answered yes — Jyotirao Phule, B. R. Ambedkar, John Dewey, Paulo Freire —…

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  • Education as an agent of change
  • How education could constitute a new social order
  • Why education alone cannot do it
  • Conclusion

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