The Democratic Citizen. A Rational Utopia of Post-Modern Education

The article states that Mexico is currently undergoing a profound social crisis which sprang from the fact that public affairs are managed not taking into account the people's interests. That makes us think about the possibility of a more democratic society. To suggest an alternative to an...

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Autore principale: de la Torre Gamboa, Miguel
Natura: Online
Lingua:spa
eng
Pubblicazione: REDIE es una publicación del Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo (IIDE). 2000
Accesso online:https://redie.uabc.mx/index.php/redie/article/view/24
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Riassunto:The article states that Mexico is currently undergoing a profound social crisis which sprang from the fact that public affairs are managed not taking into account the people's interests. That makes us think about the possibility of a more democratic society. To suggest an alternative to antidemocratic practice implies an effort to design an educational project, a sensible utopia, which is viable because it is not a hopeless criticism, but it gathers those elements from reality aiming to social transformation. A democratic society would be one which keeps a true symmetry among individual's interaction, and whose starting point is the universal principle of mutual respect and personal autonomy. Educators should work towards that sort of society through the image of the democratic citizen.