Abstract
Learning is a central factor of social and spatial cohesion. Educational institutions play a significant role in the reproduction or transformation of social relations by conveying values and practices that either sustain or contradict the dominant societal structures. Learning is also crucial for the enhancement of urban governance, insofar as it is associated with the promotion of critical thinking, access to information and participation in collective decision-making processes. This article discusses how education contributes to inclusive urban development and local collective identities through the responses it provides to three issues – innovation and creativity, citizenship, and cultural diversity – that have become crucial challenges to urban social cohesion. The last section aims to materialise this discussion around two concrete urban processes : the development of local learning communities – learning from the city ; and the role of educational institutions in socially inclusive urban regeneration processes – learning for the city.
Highlights
Course promotes the social recognition of certain types of education, learning and knowledge to the detriment of others, and in itself provides clear evidence of the sociopolitical character of the realities conveyed by these concepts
11 the prevailing socio-political models decisively influence both the quality of public schooling and the most highly-valued skills accepted in a particular society
Behind the dominant logic lies the principle that competitiveness is the main development factor and the key for individual success, unjustifiably ignoring the fact that loss of cohesion undermines the functioning of society, leads to explicit conflict and violence, with youth and young adults as the major protagonists
Summary
Apprendre pour et de la ville : le rôle de l'apprentissage dans la cohésion sociale urbaine. ISSN: 2294-9135 Publisher: National Committee of Geography of Belgium, Société Royale Belge de Géographie. Electronic reference Isabel André, André Carmo, Alexandre Abreu, Ana Estevens and Jorge Malheiros, « Learning for and from the city : the role of education in urban social cohesion », Belgeo [Online], 4 | 2012, Online since 10 June 2013, connection on 10 December 2020. This text was automatically generated on 10 December 2020. Belgeo est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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