IMPACT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DURING LAST FEW DECADES

The present study gives a detailed picture of social changes occurred during the last few decades in response to scientific technological revolution and the need to incorporate these changes into the curriculum because of their affects on family and community life. The discussion of the role of education is as old as Aristotle, and this discussion is renewed in every period of social crisis. Whether we view the role as that of transmitting the culture socializing an individual or reconstructing a society, we need to study and analyze the structure of society in order to determine what the goals and the emphasis of the complex education should be. This is especially necessary in a rapidly changing technological society where education plays a role in relation to all aspects of social structure like demographic, economic, sociopolitical, ideological as well as spiritual.