Social Change and Educational Outcomes: 1980-2000

Harold G. Shane Social changes of the next two decadesand their educational consequenceswill have so great a worldwide impact that they no longer can be considered in the narrow context of a single nation. Because social change greatly transcends national borders, education, too, needs to become more transnational. And because of the overspill of knowledge in a given field of learning, education needs to become much more transdisciplinary than it heretofore has been.
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Criticism and/or crisis in society

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VII Modified or new social practices (Synthesis)

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Figure 1

A Model Illustrating Evolving Social Change Processes

SOURCE: Designed by Harold G. Shane, Indiana University, Bloomington.

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continuous Dispute and conflict < < (Anti-thesis) > Interaction

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Alternative social practices proposed (Thesis) VII Social Experimentation and innovation

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Contemporary, accepted social practices and conditions

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