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CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATION IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
Educational Responses to Social Change and Diversity
Joy Kirt Waraich, Research Scholar
Social Change???
• Alteration of Structures within the social structure
Cultural symbols
Rules of behaviour
Social organization
Value System
• Education sector is one of the largest in the world with
• 1.3 million schools, • 30,000 college and • 542 listed universities. • The amount of public money in the
education sector is USD 40 billion. • The private sector money involved
in education stands at a greater value that is USD 60 billion.
• In the Financial year 2011-12, the finance minister Pranab Mukherjee allocated Rs.52057 crore for this sector.
“I am afraid of no one.”—Malala Yousafzai
It is so easy to take things for granted when we don’t realize just how blessed we are to have the opportunity for education and a future.
