Abstract

Education has long been recognized as one of the most powerful instruments of social change shaping individual consciousness collective values and institutional structures within societies. Across historical periods and cultural contexts education has played a transformative role in redefining social norms reducing inequalities fostering democratic participation and enabling economic and cultural development. In contemporary societies marked by globalization technological advancement and persistent social disparities the role of education in social change has become even more complex and significant. Education today functions not only as a means of transmitting knowledge and skills but also as a social process that influences attitudes toward equality justice citizenship gender relations environmental responsibility and cultural pluralism. This research paper examines the role of education in social change by analyzing how educational systems policies and practices contribute to both i