Educational contributions to building cohesion within Europe social and institutional life Erasmus Intensive Programme Eunice Macedo June, eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
A world with odd contents! Where different roads cross Different logics Different cultures Different people blublublu… 2eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
“has become another buzzword” (Chan, To & Chan, 2006: 273) Council of Europe and the European Union, the OECD, the World Bank… Equivalent to solidarity and trust Incorporating inclusion, social capital and poverty Aimed at social integration and system integration Social cohesion 3eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Open Method of Co-ordination transforming the EU into “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion Council of the European Union, 2001: 4 4eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
2006 Spring European Council Common Objectives – social protection and inclusion social cohesion and equal opportunities economic growth, jobs and sustainable development strategy agents’ governing, transparency and participation in policies 5eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Some tensions Europeanization - New welfare state project in Europe – From social cohesion to social investment – Building and development of human capital – Cosmopolitan citizenship (Soysal, 2009) 6eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Decoupling from work and citizenship Decoupling of social justice and social cohesion – individual, active citizenship Flexible, precarious labour, work in-formalization, do not provide for social identity supported by labour Individual, moral responsibility to seek for social cohesion Some challenges 7eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Social cohesion may be seen as a “set of policies, social services, and civic education aimed to support immigrants, marginalized people… and ease their interaction with better-off citizens. (Young, 2002) ? Social cohesion 8eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
religious language ethnic cultural living habits nderstandings gender sexual orientation age blublublu… Individual/ group differences 9eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Context structural sistemic relations including labour market diversity Attitudinal prejudice assumptions inertia blublubluu… 10eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp A
marginalisation missunderstandings social exclusion power relations lack of communication prejudice assumptions 11eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
isolation 12eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Silence and imobility 13eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Powerlessness 14eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
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A political voice with the world cultures and people are imperfect and incomplete as people we have the possibility and responsibility to intervene in change and to uncover the structural positions education as a process of social and personal awareness Freire, eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Conditions for social cohesion Equality of condition as an opportunity 17eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Respect and recognition – to “live one’s life without the burden of contempt and enmity from the dominant culture” Resources – to have “a range of resource-dependent options that is of roughly the same value as those of others” Love, care and solidarity – access to “ample scope for forming valuable human attachments” Power – “to influence the decisions that affect their lives” Working and learning – real choice among occupations that they find satisfying or fulfilling” A structure, systems of trust. (Rob, 2010) Baker, Lynch, Cantillon and Walsh, eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
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We are part of this movement What can we and each of us do ? 22eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Some ideas tolerance acceptance within difference equality involvement membership hability to communicate awareness exchanging experiences work together education Communicative Democracy (Young, 2002) 23eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Context: global, European, local (economy/ culture) Our values – our ways of being Social cohesion – well being How do the diverse levels interrelate? How is social cohesion build and enacted? 24eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp
Research Audit dimensions attitudinal physical systemic conviviality communicative 25eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp