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A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education Context (Palgrave Macmillan's Postcolonial Studies in Education)
Danilo R. Streck
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Description for A New Social Contract in a Latin American Education Context (Palgrave Macmillan's Postcolonial Studies in Education)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Postcolonial Studies in Education. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JNA; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Postcolonial Studies in Education
Number of Pages
187
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230105386
SKU
V9780230105386
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About Danilo R. Streck
DANILO ROMEU STRECK Director of the Graduate School of Education at the University of the Sinos Valley, Brazil.
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