Carla Galego, Maria Manuel Calvet Ricardo, António Teodoro (Orgs.)

Authors, Editors

2017

Year of edition

978-989-757-035-3

ISBN

Synopsis – [Comparative Education Beyond Numbers: Local Contexts, National Realities, and Transnational Processes]. The school (formal education institution) is not meant to play the role of redeemer of society. However, undoubtedly, its social role is strategic for any model of society, including the struggle for a more equal and fair society. According to Saviani (2008), truly revolutionary pedagogy is critical, and because it is critical, it knows it is truly conditioned. It is not the main determinant of society, but it is secondary and therefore decisive. In this sense, Freire's (2005) conception is added to this idea, which believes in a school education that liberates, politicizes, and builds. Through a quality educational system, the history of a nation, the story of a people can be transformed.

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