Jaipur • New Delhi • Bengaluru • Guwahati • Kolkata
Yogesh Atal
Education is called upon to provide the tools to the people to facilitate their adjustment with the new dynamism rather than to succumb to despair and disappointment.
Treating education as a sub-system of the wider society, the author emphasizes the need to prepare the new generation to cope with the uncertain future by training them to unlearn and relearn skills. He underlines the need to gauge the emerging trends, envision the likely scenario of the future, identify transition requirements, locate the latent impact of education, and to redesign our educational strategies.
“Teachers and educationists can no longer afford to be mere disseminators of the already accumulated knowledge… More than before, education today must be visionary and future-oriented in the face of startling scientific and technological advances and innovations, dramatic socio-economic changes and socio-political reforms, and greater cultural awakening.”
Underlying most of these essays is the message to rethink the strategies relative to education.
Yogesh Atal, has a long teaching experience at various universities and IIT, Delhi. In 1971 he moved to ICSSR, New Delhi as its Director. Beginning 1974 he has had an association with UNESCO that lasted 24 years. He took retirement from UNESCO after becoming its Principal Director. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including “Indian Sociology from Where to Where; Mandate for Political Transition; The Poverty Question; Exploring the Social Frontier; and Changing Indian Society.”
Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins and Geoffrey Lawrence (eds)
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