Social Change

The model of educational social change worked out in this paper consists of three stages and follows the characteristic guidelines of any process of spreading. This change is driven by the interest in obtaining higher income and prestige in exchange to a higher rate of schooling. At present, and according to such a model, Spain is between the second and third stages and will reach the third as soon as the arrithmetic means of income and prestige of the different educational levels are the same.

In this article, the author analyses change as one of the Main characteristics of our society that could turn the man into an outsider. In order to prevent it, we have to elaborate innovative educational projects of permanent education where advances of technology have to be included. Educational aims have to play an strategic part in our society, where there are so many instrumental resources. Technologies evaluation becomes, nowadays, a pressing need in order to derive profit from them and to reduce their unsuitable effects, if we want them to serve educational values.