Modifying Education

Modifying education towards a sustainable future

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To place a system of values and ethics at the centre of society's concerns.

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To instil in the minds of all people a conviction of the values for peace, equity, democracy, appropriate development and conservation in such a way as to promote critical reflection and negotiation on the creation of new lifestyles and living patterns.

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To develop to the maximum the potential of all human beings throughout their lives so that they can achieve self-fulfilment and full self-expression with the collective achievement of a viable future.

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To encourage lifelong learning, starting at the beginning of life and grounded in life - one based on a passion for a radical transformation of society and a change in the moral character of society.

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To give priority to future-focused questions, issues and problems and to ways of facing the future with hope and confidence by promoting dialogue among the sectors of society.

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To advance new forms of knowledge rooted both in scientific rationality and in traditional and popular beliefs and consciousness, drawing on these as a source of humane understanding and a pointer to collective wisdom.

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To encourage a meeting of disciplines, a linking of knowledge and of expertise, and to render our understanding more integrated and contextualized and so, in turn, to open up new horizons for justice and equality (equity), democracy, conservation and appropriate development.

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To encourage the refinement of locally based processes of change and of integral community advancement, one not marked by a passive receptivity to or a mindless repetition of homogeneous development models.

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To encourage new alliances between the State and civil society in promoting citizens' emancipation mediated by the practice of democratic principles while fully acknowledging the complexities inherent to every human reality.

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To promote a culture of citizenship and give value to social actors...