Education--key to social justice
Education and Social Justice
Education is an ever-enlarging arena with multiple new perspective pouring into its domain every new day. If change is the only constant, we perceive, in today’s world, education undoubtedly functions as a catalyst of that change.
Education is a tool of empowerment. Empowering each individual is a steping stone towards giving justice.
Justice is a very systematically built socio-political reality in today’s world & in multicultural pluralist context of India it is amalgamated with civilizational heritage.The Constitution of India aptly mentions achieving“JUSTICE, social, economic and political" as the first of the four goals of the Constitution. So,making the common people aware about their rights is also very important in order to uproot any kind of socio-political injustice. Imparting education from the grass root level naturally is one of the key factors in achieving justice.
As India moves confidently in the path of development with its vibrant democracy and composit culture, the question of education and social justice is of utmost importance in the present crucial socio-economic juncture.
India has a rich legacy of educating its people and giving birth to some wonderfully creative minds who helped to formulate some path-breaking systems. Undoubtedly, they influenced the social ethos. The rapid developments in every field of learning especially in science and technology and the experiments in the methodologies of teaching –learning redefined education and education system.
Justice in the form of the greater cosmic scheme of life as traditionally thought to be the divine providence and doing justice as fairness stand as two conceptual variants, the latter being more recent.
The very concept of Education and Social Justice, thus , requires detailed analysis.
This paper tries to focus on certain issues ---
*Oppressor and oppressed….pedagogy of the oppressed
Education is an ever-enlarging arena with multiple new perspective pouring into its domain every new day. If change is the only constant, we perceive, in today’s world, education undoubtedly functions as a catalyst of that change.
Education is a tool of empowerment. Empowering each individual is a steping stone towards giving justice.
Justice is a very systematically built socio-political reality in today’s world & in multicultural pluralist context of India it is amalgamated with civilizational heritage.The Constitution of India aptly mentions achieving“JUSTICE, social, economic and political" as the first of the four goals of the Constitution. So,making the common people aware about their rights is also very important in order to uproot any kind of socio-political injustice. Imparting education from the grass root level naturally is one of the key factors in achieving justice.
As India moves confidently in the path of development with its vibrant democracy and composit culture, the question of education and social justice is of utmost importance in the present crucial socio-economic juncture.
India has a rich legacy of educating its people and giving birth to some wonderfully creative minds who helped to formulate some path-breaking systems. Undoubtedly, they influenced the social ethos. The rapid developments in every field of learning especially in science and technology and the experiments in the methodologies of teaching –learning redefined education and education system.
Justice in the form of the greater cosmic scheme of life as traditionally thought to be the divine providence and doing justice as fairness stand as two conceptual variants, the latter being more recent.
The very concept of Education and Social Justice, thus , requires detailed analysis.
This paper tries to focus on certain issues ---
*Oppressor and oppressed….pedagogy of the oppressed