Education as a mechanism of social inclusion - The role of education in reducing the risks of social exclusion -

Abstract

The author is addressing the social inclusion, as a prerequisite forthe optimal satisfaction of human needs (from biological to social),respectively the mechanisms by which individuals and social groupsare involved in the wider community, and that are giving them therights and the opportunities to achieve integration in one or moresocial systems (democratic - legal, labor - market, social welfare system,family system and the local community system). The dimensionof social inclusion (education, employment, health, etc.) to which theauthor’s analysis will be oriented is education, because the inclusionin the education system (either as a teacher or professor, either asa student) is to partake in the ‘sociopolitical context’. So it will bedrawn the attention to the link between the education with the economic(employment) and the socio-cultural (social inclusion) space,in order to emphasize the importance of including in the all threementioned areas, with aim of reducing the risk of social exclusionand its overcoming. Therefore, the inclusive education and lifelonglearning, as mechanisms of social inclusion and reducing the risks ofsocial exclusion, are the main assumptions that this work proceeds.