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• Third edition (May): Conflict Resolution and Peace Education
• Second edition (October – December): How to Involve Youth in Democratic Participation.
• First edition (July-September): Inter –American Program.
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Policies and Programs in Citizen Education
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Quote (1st Ed.)
"I see injured and wounded schools. At the base of the sustainability of democracy is confidence. To generate confidence is a condition of learning. No one learns in fear. And school is often the space of fear. It is too often the space of black mail. That is to say, if you don't do such and such a thing then I will punish you. If you don't learn such and such a thing then the consequences will be this. If authentic questions don't exist or we don't generate them in this space, then we have no basis for a viable concept of democracy, which is confidence between persons.
One of the first worries of the school should be to generate confidence. Learning based on confidence, through pedagogy of confidence. And this is not only poetry. Very concrete scenarios can be created so that the institution/school can generate a pedagogy of confidence. To generate learning based on confidence and not fear. Because it is only confidence that liberates. It is what generates productivity, learning, and all the good things that we want the school to produce. However, if we don't heal this wound that I think exists (which is manipulation in the school, learning based on fear or black mail) we will not advance very far towards generating a democratic institution. A school without confidence will never be a democratic institution."
Ricardo Hevia (UNESCO/OREALC), Excerpt from the OAS Inter American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices Advisory Board's discussions.
Quote (2nd Ed.)
“A complex aspect of youth participation proposals is the risk of simulation, constructing an apparent participation (Ball, S. 1989) which only accentuates the discrediting of school authority. How to differentiate between real participation and apparent participation? There are forms of participation which only serve to reinforce the status quo and make it more presentable. “Consultations”, for instance, may become effective strategies of apparent participation.” Fernando Onetto, Ministry of Education of Argentina.
Quote (3rd Ed.)
“Where it is legal, considered acceptable, and perhaps even commendable, for men to control women, and the wealthy or privileged to control the poor or disadvantaged, and parents to control children through violence and the threat of violence, then it is likely to be legal, considered acceptable and perhaps even commendable, for both adults and children to use similar methods in schools. By being victims, perpetrators, and witnesses of violence, children learn that violence is an acceptable way for the strong and aggressive to get what they want from the comparatively weak, passive or peaceful.”
(United Nation's World Report on Violence Against Children, Violence Against Children in School's and Educational Settings, [chapter 4], p. 111).
Quote (4th Ed.)
“Human rights education contributes to the discovery of unknown worlds, like the suffering of others and indignation in the face of injustice (…) it is a bet for the future, with the end that later, neither justice nor liberty be claimed by gangs or invoked violently in the streets.” (Roberto Cuellar, Executive Director, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. Taken from “Educación en Derechos Humanos: La Apuesta por el Futuro de la Democracia ” Boletín Informativo IIDH , March – June, 2007).
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