The Debates on Education are an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. [+]
Abstract
It has been asserted that learning to learn and learning to live together are the two cornerstones that reflect the new challenges education must face in the context of the far-reaching transformations that society is undergoing. The former sums up the educational challenges involved from the perspective of cognitive development, while the latter is a summary of the challenges related to the construction of a social order in which we can live together in unity, but retaining our identity as individuals. In order to understand the factors that have made it possible and necessary to postulate the two cornerstones in question, we need to consider the trends and the logic which are currently prevalent in the dynamics of what has begun to be referred to as the "knowledge society".
Keywordseducation, development, identity, knowledge society
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Graduate in educational studies. Former lecturer of history of education at the Universities of La Plata, Comahue and La Pampa, where he also held the post of academic secretary.
Worked in UNESCO as an expert on educational policy.
Has held the post of director of the Regional Centre for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Appointed director of the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC), in Santiago (Chile), between 1986 and 1992.
Director of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education in Geneva from 1992 to 1997.
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