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Education for Life: participation in the transformation of a common

Author:
Claudia Gómez Portugal

Entry type:
Scientific paper

Year of publication:
2014

Publishers:
Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Language:
English

Abstract: The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities. Increasingly often environmental, social and existential crisis among others, evidence unsustainability of the development model. Face this systemic crisis involves recognizing the need to create new structures and organizational forms that include a new education, that primarily respond the paradigm shift to be predators of life to be supporters of life. Today free learning and education for life are key to move towards knowledge societies capable of generating coherent change to different contexts and needs and achieve a sustainable present. The initiative of the Free Learning Communities for Life, takes up this discussion, sets the questioning of whether it is from the creation of small learning communities based on a holistic view a first sustainability practice, if the construction of an own community is a first learning for the regeneration of life, if retrieve this possibility is the beginning of a new common structure that contributes to the conformation of an education for life.

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