A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education Context

by Streck, Danilo R.; Westhelle, Vítor

• ISBN13: 9780230105386
• ISBN10: 0230105386
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The book takes the social contract as a metaphor for understanding the challenges to education within a context of paradigmatic transition, and of profound social and political transformations.

Author Biography

Danilo Romeu Streck is Director of the Graduate School of Education at the University of the Sinos Valley, Brazil.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Series Editors' Preface	p. xiii
Previous Publications	p. xvii
Credits	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Daily Life, Globalization, and Education: Educational Practice and the Reading of the World	p. 9
The Latin American Pedagogical Labyrinth: A Popular Education Perspective	p. 27
The New Social Contract: A Brief Map for Educators	p. 43
Emile and the Limits of Citizenship	p. 65
Autonomy Revisited: From Rousseau to Freire	p. 85
Conscientização: Genesis and Dimensions of Critical Consciousness	p. 101
Citizenship Can Be Learned: Participatory Budgeting as a Pedagogical Process	p. 119
Pedagogy of the New Social Contract: A Few Agendas	p. 139
Notes	p. 157
Index	p. 181
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