Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Education for peace in a sustainable society

According to Fuentes, education has a relevant mission to help individuals in creating identities for peace. Girls and boys who had an identity that gives them security, a capacity for contact and empathy, are beings of peace. On the other hand, those who are conceived as weak, isolated and lonely, become hostile and sad beings. To remove them from this situation is a difficult task. Those with a positive identiy contribute to peace, to nations and communities that value themselves, without deteriorating that values of others. Current conditions in Latin America- such as pollutio, ecological deterioration, industrialization, the unplanned expansion of citites with a huge urban maginality, that rates of deforestation, erosion and reduction of cultivated land, reduced space for the survival of indigenous minorities, difficult access to water and natural resources, which are increasingly precarious are explained by some of those undesirable effects of development and modernization.
My question, how does a country that is in such needs, have their needs met when it comes to early childhood education?

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