Studies in comparative education

The New Educational Pact: Education, Competitiveness and Citizenship in Modern Society

Juan Carlos Tedesco.1998. 115 p.
ISBN: 92-3-185006-7
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This book is a response to the need for reflection about the role of education in the new social scenario in which we are living, and attempts to propose an educational alternative that is consistent with the reality of modern society. It is a book of fundamental value for a critical analysis and understanding of the current situation in education, in order to look ahead to the future of education with confidence, founded above all on the learning capacity of human beings.

Contents

Introduction

I. We are living through a revolution

 

  1. The educational crisis is not what it used to be
  2. What does the new revolution consist of?
  3. Education's response to the new social reality

II. The crisis in the traditional system

 

  1. Educating the citizen: nation and democracy
  2. The 'socialization deficit' of contemporary society
  3. Family and socialization
  4. The development of individualism
  5. Television: the disappearance of childhood
  6. School and socialization: the disappearance of the teacher
  7. The lack of meaning

III. Quality for all

 

  1. Competitiveness and citizenship
  2. Redefining the relation between education and the labour market

IV. The new technologies

 

  1. Television and learning
  2. Computing and education

V. The construction of identity

 

  1. The link between stable and dynamic
  2. The link between personal and alien: identifying the borderline
  3. Individualism and general interests
  4. Identity and the ability to choose
  5. Conflict and construction of identity

VI. The total school

 

  1. The exhaustion of the modernization paradigm
  2. The purposes of education
  3. The 'total' school
  4. School and society

VII. System or institution?

 

  1. Institutional design and justice
  2. The debate about private education
  3. Public/private education and social development
  4. Private schooling and public control
  5. Privatization and quality of education
  6. Institutional identity as an explanation for good results
  7. Educational networks

VIII. Are teachers professionals, technicians or militants?

 

  1. To professionalize or de-professionalize?
  2. Teaching team versus isolated teachers
  3. Promoting innovation
  4. Giving priority to basic education facilities
  5. New teachers
  6. Teachers and militants

IX. Educational reform

 

  1. The educational pact as a basis for reform
  2. Reform or institutional innovation?
  3. Strategies for educational change are systemic