1. Educational contributions to building cohesion within Europe social and institutional life Erasmus Intensive Programme Eunice Macedo June, 2010 1eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp

2. A world with odd contents! Where different roads cross Different logics Different cultures Different people blublublu… 2eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp

3. “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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. religious language ethnic cultural living habits nderstandings gender sexual orientation age blublublu… Individual/ group differences 9eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp

10. Context structural sistemic relations including labour market diversity Attitudinal prejudice assumptions inertia blublubluu… 10eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp A

11. marginalisation missunderstandings social exclusion power relations lack of communication prejudice assumptions 11eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp

12. isolation 12eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp

13. Silence and imobility 13eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp

14. Powerlessness 14eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp

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16. 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, 1999 16eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp

17. Conditions for social cohesion Equality of condition as an opportunity 17eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp

18. 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, 2004 18eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp

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22. We are part of this movement What can we and each of us do ? 22eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp

23. 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

24. 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

25. Research Audit dimensions attitudinal physical systemic conviviality communicative 25eunice macedo.fpce.up.pt.ipfp