Social Change and Educational Outcomes:

1980-2000
Harold G. Shane

Social changes of the next two decades—and their educational consequences—will 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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continuous Social Indicators
Social Change <——————————————————————————— pressage change
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Criticism and/or —— V
crisis in society ———————————
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— practices proposed (Thesis)
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— — — ———— continuous
Dispute and conflict <<———————————————————————— Social Experimentation
(Anti-thesis) ————————————————————————> and innovation
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Modified or new social ——————————————>

practices (Synthesis)

Figure 1
A Model Illustrating Evolving
Social Change Processes
SOURCE: Designed by Harold G. Shane, Indiana University, Bloomington.