This book elaborates on issues regarding alterity, values, and human development in different educational contexts, serving from young children to adolescents to adults, and it claims for the need of educational contexts to consider their responsibilities regarding the development of the sociomoral dimension of human beings. The authors, experienced theorists and researchers sharing a cultural psychological perspective, provide a fresh understanding of educational institutions, and elaborate on how initiatives aiming at promoting dialogical practices and ethical orientation within educational contexts can be productive. They provide teachers, researchers, psychologists and parents, as well as the general public, with useful knowledge in order to contribute to theoretical and practical advances concerning education and human development.
Criticizes the absence of concern over the quality of the human interactions and relations in schools
Stresses the fundamental role of self-other relationships and communication in human development
Emphasizes the urgency for dialogical practices and ethical orientation within pedagogical contexts
Introduces new ways to prepare teachers for dealing with social issues in the classroom
Suggest new ways to approach the gaps and contradictions of the system to promote actual transformation
Criticizes the absence of concern over the quality of the human interactions and relations in schools Stresses the fundamental role of self-other relationships and communication in human development Emphasizes the urgency for dialogical practices and ethical orientation within pedagogical contexts Introduces new ways to prepare teachers for dealing with social issues in the classroom Suggest new ways to approach the gaps and contradictions of the system to promote actual transformation Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Angela Uchoa Branco
Quality of human interactions in schools Human development in educational contexts Diversity in schools Pro-social dispositions in education Social responsibility in schools Alterity, social values and citizenship in education Moral development and ethics in education