Herramientas para transformar el gobierno

INTERCULTURALITY, MEDIATION AND COLLABORATIVE WORK - Intercultural education is a great challenge to XXI century society. The contents of this book are thought out so as to connect intimately the theory and the practice of intercultural education, in such a way that not only allows one to reflect on the topic but also and fundamentally, to practise it. The book deals with some consequences of immigration, connected with citizenship rights, racism and its diverse manifestations. It discusses how intercultural education constitutes a fundamental means to develop democratic values, and it makes...

El área andina parece hundida en la incertidumbre: ni gobiernos democráticos, ni ensayos populistas y mucho menos proyectos autoritarios han logrado darle una perspectiva de estabilidad económica, institucional y política a la región. Muy por el contrario, afloran en ella persistentes formas de exclusión, exacerbadas por un proceso de globalización a ultranza, e inevitables expresiones de inconformidad y de violencia, de las cuales Colombia es sólo el caso extremo, en cuyo espejo se miran los demás. El propósito de este libro no es otro que el de proveer, a partir de distintos...

EQUALITY UNDER SUSPICION - The transforming power of education - The book describes equality based on the idea that no woman should be less equal in opportunity or in human rights than any man. Even with the granting of equality to women in public life, women’s domestic labour will always be unequal to that of men. The hidden patriarchal agenda of public institutions can subvert the apparent equality of legal rights. Education is one of the most powerful ways in which gender and social relations of production are reproduced. The combined influence of gender and class construction in schools ...

Uno degli antropologi più noti nel panorama italiano riesce a comunicarci il volto sfaccettato e ambiguo della parola cultura in poco più di cento pagine, con un linguaggio chiaro e appassionato, con rigore metodologico e soprattutto con una grande apertura mentale e una rara empatia nei confronti dell’«altro», unico requisito davvero necessario per evitare di cadere in millantate «guerre tra culture». Di «cultura» nel tempo sono state date definizioni diverse, per tentare di imbrigliare un concetto così deformabile. Eppure viviamo di cultura e la invochiamo spesso. Ma noi europei...