Educational and Modernization | Indian Society

This article throws light upon the six important educational implications of modernisation. The implications are: 1. Aims of Education 2. Curriculum 3. Methods of Teaching 4. Role of Teacher 5. Discipline 6. School Administration.

Educational Implication # 1. Aims of Education:

Education spells out the following aims for accelerating the pace of modernisation.

(a) Increasing Productivity:

In order to increase productivity emphasis should be laid upon science-based education, work experience, application of science to productive processes and vocationalisation of education.


(b) Achieving Social and National Integration:

Social and national integration is crucial to the building of a strong and united country which is essential pre-condition for modernisation. To achieve this common school system of public education should be vigorously implemented; social and national service should be made compulsory for all students at all stages; and national consciousness should be developed.

(c) Accelerating the Process of Modernisation:

To do this, education should be related to arousing curiosity; stimulating proper interests, aptitudes, values; building up essential skills as independent thinking and balanced judgements; and developing a high intelligentsia from all strata of a social system.


(d) Cultivating Social, Moral and Spiritual Values:

Education should aim at cultivating values-social, moral and spiritual.

(e) Developing Democratic Citizenship:

For this, education should aim at promoting clear and independent thinking, clearness in speech and writing, art of living with the community, sense of true patriotism and developing a sense of world citizenship.


(f) Developing Qualities of Leadership:

Education should aim at training students in taking responsibilities of leadership in social, political, economic, industrial and cultural fields in their small groups or community.

(g) Scientific Attitude and Experimentation:

Education should aim at fostering scientific temper and attitude, arousing interest in innovations and encouraging experimentation.


(h) Developing Wholesome Personality:

Education aims at development of whole personality in all its statures and dimensions: physical, mental, social, emotional, moral, spiritual and aesthetic.

Educational Implication # 2. Curriculum:

Curriculum is said to be the mirror of aims of education towards modernisation.

(a) Broad-based and Pupil-centred Curriculum:

To achieve the above stated aims, education should be diversified, broad-based and pupil- centred. Curriculum should take interest, attitude, aptitude, needs and demands of pupil into its account, for pupil is the focal point of instruction and assumes the cynosure of all teaching-learning activities.

Curriculum should also include a variety of experiences that a child receives at school and outside the school. Different subjects need to be integrated into the framework of curriculum for modernisation.

(b) Community-Centred:

Curriculum in a modernized society needs to take demands, needs and aspirations of the society. It should be related to the life of the people in the community.

(c) Social and Scientific Outlook:

With a view to fostering scientism and social outlook, curriculum should include vocational, industrial and technical courses.

(d) Integrated Curriculum:

Curriculum should provide knowledge in an integrated and coherent manner. Units of teaching are correlated with the life and environment of pupils. It discards any fragmentation or compartmentalization of knowledge.

(e) Proper Harmony:

Proper harmony should be brought between formal and informal, direct and indirect education.

(f) Science-dominated:

The curriculum should loaded with science and technology. To promote open-mindedness, the spirit of inquiry and experimentation, problem solving, scientific attitude and analytical skills, the quality and quantity of science teaching should be raised.

(g) Vocationalisation of Education:

Education should have a vocational bias with a view to achieving self-sufficiency and development of nation in its truest sense and spirit. Secondary education should be vocationalised to include teaching of agriculture, technology, commerce, industry and computer to develop proper skills among pupils to be self-reliant and to work for the progress of the nation.

(h) Application of Science to Productive Processes:

Every effort should be made to link programme to technology and the application of science to productive processes including agriculture to raise productivity of nation which paves the way for modernisation of the country.

(i) Study of Foreign Languages:

It is imperative to encourage the study of important foreign languages like English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, Russian etc. on a more extensive scale for a variety of academic and practical purposes. It is said that foreign languages are rich in knowledge and culture.

(j) Emphasis on Co-curricular Activities:

Curriculum should include a host of co-curricular activities like Drama, Dance, Song, Debates, Symposia, Seminar, Games, Sports, NCC, NSS, Scouts, Guides, Red-cross, Museum, Clubs etc. to cultivate social, moral, democratic and aesthetic values.

Besides, in order to have mass education, non-formal, social and adult education, women education, population education open and distance learning, lifelong and continuing education etc. should be strengthened.

Educational Implication # 3. Methods of Teaching:

Modernisation trend in education has given birth to a number of modern, progressive and dynamic methods of teaching which are essentially founded on the principles of individual difference, learning by doing, freedom, learning by self at his own pace, and learning by co-operation.

Following methods of teaching are resorted to in the process of education for modernization:

1. Computerised instruction;

2. Programmed learning;

3. Micro-teaching;

4. Team teaching;

5. Simulated teaching;

6. Project method;

7. Heuristic method;

8. Experimental method;

9. Lecture-cum-demonstration method and 

10. Tutorial method and Seminar method.

Besides use of hard-ware in teaching is recommended viz., teaching machines, computer, radio, television, video-tapes, film strips etc. Therefore, dynamic modern methods of teaching are suggested in the teaching of modernised society.

Educational Implication # 4. Role of Teacher:

In the ultimate analysis the teacher has a crucial role to play in fostering the right outlook and attitude necessary to transform the society. Therefore certain qualities are expected from the teacher in a modernized nation. They are scientific attitude, rational thought, empathy, mobility, spirit of inquiry, democratic style, secular outlook, faith in change and transformation, spirit of

nationalism and internationalism, recognition of individual’s worth, capacity to use science and technology in the routine activities of the school, knowledge about the latest trends in education, use of methods of teaching effectively, interest in improving the quality of community life, free from prejudices and narrow loyalties etc.

As such, it is the right teacher who can bring about miraculous changes in the society; can modernize the entire atmosphere of school; and can imbue with the students all the ingredients of modernisation.

Educational Implication # 5. Discipline:

Modernisation supports free-discipline, self-discipline and co-operative discipline. External discipline is alien to modernisation. Self-discipline is the essence of modernisation. It involves changes in one’s tendencies and desires according to the changing demands of the society.

It is inner, free and self imposed or self-controlled. Further, modernisation favours co-operative and positive discipline based on love, sympathy and human relationship.

It is based on the premise of doing the right thing in the right manner and at the right moment. Therefore, self governing units should be opened in the school to foster good qualities of co-operation, fellow felineness, sympathy, leadership etc. as essential for a modernized society.

It is due to self-discipline that pupils obey rules and regulations of their units without any hesitation. Therefore, discipline is a way of life; not a theory of conduct.

Educational Implication # 6. School Administration:

School administration should be aired with the scent of modernisation and it is to be based on the following principles like principles of democracy, sharing of responsibility, equality, freedom, co- operation, justice, recognition of individual worth and dignity, leadership, flexibility, efficiency, optimism, professional growth of the staff etc.

As such democratic atmosphere should prevail in the school which signals the modernisation trend in the society.

To conclude, modernisation is imperative and is in tune with the logic and demand of the present times. Modernisation helps in solving diverse problems attacking upon the man from time to time. In the process of modernisation, education plays a very mercurial role in numerous ways.

It is said that, modernisation is the offshoot of educational churning. It can open the vista of modernity in various fields of human life which paves the way for national development.

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