The Role of Education in Social Change and Transformation

Abstract

The objective of this paper was to present the role of education and its effect on social change and transformation. Education is a social phenomenon that accompanies human production and labor. It originated from the need for human participation in social life and self-development. Education has been an integral part in every step of human development, including creations of culture. Human history has gone through a long historical social evolution, through different social stages with large morphological differences, from primitive society to agricultural society, industrial society, information society, and then to the future artificial intelligence society. The development of productive forces constantly promotes human beings to be creative, forcing education to be compatible with social development and human needs, and brings about changes in educational content, methods, and conditions. The fundamental change of educational characteristics is the inevitable requirement of social and economic development and transformation and is determined by the general characteristics of social and economic development. Any social and economic transformation in history has led to fundamental changes in the characteristics of education. The relationship between education and social change has always been the core topic in the process of discussing education. Educational social scholars divide the relationship between education and social change into three categories: 1) education as the result of social change, 2) education as the cause of social change in people's ideas and ideology, and 3) education as the influence on most social change.