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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817039803321

Autore

Streck Danilo Romeu

Titolo

A new social contract in a Latin American education context / / Danilo R. Streck ; foreword by Vitor Westhelle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

ISBN

1-282-99347-X

9786612993473

0-230-11529-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Postcolonial studies in education

Classificazione

5,3

DI 1000

Altri autori (Persone)

WesthelleVitor

Disciplina

306.43/2098

Soggetti

Education - Social aspects - Latin America

Democracy and education - Latin America

Social contract

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Series Editors' Preface; Previous Publications; Credits; Introduction; 1 Daily Life, Globalization, and Education: Educational Practice and the Reading of the World; 2 The Latin American Pedagogical Labyrinth: A Popular Education Perspective; 3 The New Social Contract: A Brief Map for Educators; 4 Emile and the Limits of Citizenship; 5 Autonomy Revisited: From Rousseau to Freire; 6 Conscientização: Genesis and Dimensions of Critical Consciousness; 7 Citizenship Can Be Learned: Participatory Budgeting as a Pedagogical Process

8 Pedagogy of the New Social Contract: A Few AgendasNotes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education Context is committed to what has become known as "perspective of the South:" understanding the South not as a geographical reference but as a vindication of the existence of ways of knowing and of living which struggle for their survival and for a legitimate place in a world where the respect for difference is balanced with the right for equality. The metaphor of the new social contract stands for the desire to envision another world, which paradoxically cannot but spring out of the entrails



of the existing one. Could the same contract under which the colonial orders were erected serve as a tool for decolonizing relations, knowledge, and power? Consequently, what kind of education could effectively help structure a new social contract? These are some of the questions Streck addresses.