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A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education ContextIntroduction

A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education Context: Introduction [This book is about social justice and the role of education within the social processes of change. Researchers from different fields tell us that certainties, if there are any, are provisional, and very few would risk a forecast about how the world will be in a decade or in the years to come. Educators, on the other hand, even when sharing this assumption, wage their time and life in favor of a world project they anticipate in every history or physics lesson. Beyond the naiveness of wanting to arrest the future in a permanent present or the belief in a kind of magic of transformation, there is the possibility of caring for and cultivating a future that, although still unknown, is pregnant with the dreams and projects for a world of justice and peace. Or, using Margaret Mead’s beautiful metaphor, the challenge is to cultivate this unknown future as the mother cares for the unborn child in her womb.1 This is, finally, the assumption that sustains this book.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
ISBN
978-1-349-28981-3
Pages
1 –7
DOI
10.1057/9780230115293_1
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This book is about social justice and the role of education within the social processes of change. Researchers from different fields tell us that certainties, if there are any, are provisional, and very few would risk a forecast about how the world will be in a decade or in the years to come. Educators, on the other hand, even when sharing this assumption, wage their time and life in favor of a world project they anticipate in every history or physics lesson. Beyond the naiveness of wanting to arrest the future in a permanent present or the belief in a kind of magic of transformation, there is the possibility of caring for and cultivating a future that, although still unknown, is pregnant with the dreams and projects for a world of justice and peace. Or, using Margaret Mead’s beautiful metaphor, the challenge is to cultivate this unknown future as the mother cares for the unborn child in her womb.1 This is, finally, the assumption that sustains this book.]

Published: Oct 1, 2015

Keywords: Social Contract; Unborn Child; Mango Tree; Latin American Population; Liberation Theology

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