PERANAN PENDIDIKAN DALAM MENGATASI KESENJANGAN SOSIAL

Sari

This paper unpacks the role of education concerning with  social mobility and civic participation. There are some evidences that education could not enhance social mobility as far as no inclusion and participation. Civic participation depends not only on a legal status, but essentially on access to social and economic resources. Thus, civic participation, the sense of belonging and solidarity, is necessarily connected with the problem of unequal distribution of resources in society. Modern conception of universal citizenship, especially when it is combined with extreme inequality and poverty, tends to exclude some groups and individuals. Civic education, as an empowerment device, not only can counteract this effect of exclusion, but it also can contribute to civic participation and construction toward a more comprehensive and effective citizenship concept.