do you believe that education can cure social ills ?

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https://louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue5p2/singerpezone.html

https://louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue5p2/singerpezone.html
Education for Social Change: From Theory to Practice
1.1 More than a century ago, Emile Durkheim rejected the idea that education could be the force to transform society and resolve social ills. Instead, Durkheim concluded that education can be reformed only if society itself is reformed. He argued that education is only the image and reflection of society.

https://www1.lehigh.edu/research/consequence/educators-address-societal-ills

https://www1.lehigh.edu/research/consequence/educators-address-societal-ills
Are we overreliant on educators to address societal ills?
The answer is both yes and no. Yes, because after almost every social problem that makes the news or any human-made tragedy, the common refrain is usually: It all goes back to education, or Education is the key. While I agree, it also absolves us of our current responsibility to do anything about the issue at hand.

https://link.springer.com / chapter / 10.1057 / 9781137093417_13

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Education as a Social Problem: Why It Can’t Cure Our Ills
Education as a Social Problem: Why It Can’t Cure Our Ills Jeffrey Polet Chapter 51 Accesses Abstract THERE IS NOTHING NOVEL ABOUT THE IDEA THAT EDUCATION CULTIVATES citizens. Theorists from Aristotle to Montesquieu have argued that good citizens are made, not born, and that the making of good citizens involves the cultivation of virtue.

https://concernusa.org/news/how-does-education-affect-poverty

https://concernusa.org/news/how-does-education-affect-poverty
How does education affect poverty? It can help end it. – Concern Worldwide
10 août 2023— Education and Economic Growth (2021 study by Stanford University and the University of Munich) 2. Universal education can fight inequality. A 2019 Oxfam report says it best: Good-quality education can be liberating for individuals, and it can act as a leveler and equalizer within society. Poverty thrives in part on inequality.

https://publichealth.tulane.edu/blog/social-determinant-of-health-education-is-crucial

https://publichealth.tulane.edu/blog/social-determinant-of-health-education-is-crucial
Social Determinant of Health: Education Is Crucial
Education as a Social Determinant of Health January 27, 2021 Eating healthy, getting regular medical check-ups, exercising and sleeping sufficiently are all behaviors well-known to influence health quality. However, studies suggest one unexpected factor that can predict how long people will live: education.

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PDF Education as a Social Problem: Why It Can’t Cure Our Ills
Education as a Social Problem: Why It Can’t Cure Our Ills Jeffrey Polet There is nothing novel about the idea that education cultivates citizens. Theorists from Aristotle to Montesquieu have argued that good citizens are made, not born, and that the making of good citizens involves the cultivation of virtue.

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_empower_students_to_take_action_for_social_change

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_empower_students_to_take_action_for_social_change
How to Empower Students to Take Action for Social Change – Greater Good
A: Create an Action plan to solve the problem. After students select what they assess to be the most effective solution, they collaborate with one another to develop a specific, measurable, attainable goal and a step-by-step action plan to implement the solution. Together, researchers refer to this as the solution plan.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304794526_Education_as_a_Social_Problem_Why_It_Can’t_Cure_Our_Ills

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304794526_Education_as_a_Social_Problem_Why_It_Can’t_Cure_Our_Ills
Education as a Social Problem: Why It Can’t Cure Our Ills – ResearchGate
Education as a Social Problem: Why It Can’t Cure Our Ills Download Citation | Education as a Social Problem: Why It Can’t Cure Our Ills | THERE IS NOTHING NOVEL ABOUT THE IDEA…

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Education as a Social Problem: Why It Can’t Cure Our Ills
THERE IS NOTHING NOVEL ABOUT THE IDEA THAT EDUCATION CULTIVATES citizens. Theorists from Aristotle to Montesquieu have argued that good citizens are made, not born, and that the making of good citizens involves the cultivation of virtue. For the latter, such education for virtue took place, at least in monarchies, not through schools but through accepted codes of behavior: models of …

https://openstax.org/books/introduction-sociology-3e/pages/16-2-theoretical-perspectives-on-education

https://openstax.org/books/introduction-sociology-3e/pages/16-2-theoretical-perspectives-on-education
16.2 Theoretical Perspectives on Education – OpenStax
Figure 16.5 The teacher’s authority in the classroom is a way in which education fulfills the manifest functions of social control. (Credit: US Department of Education/flickr) Education also provides one of the major methods used by people for upward social mobility. This function is referred to as social placement. lesoutrali bot