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Education: Instrument for Socio-Economic and Humanizing Development

Education: Instrument for Socio-Economic and Humanizing Development

Orlando Pereira, Daniel Gonçalves Novo Gomes, Ana Martins, Isabel Martins
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 12
ISBN13: 9781522595311|ISBN10: 1522595317|EISBN13: 9781522595328
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9531-1.ch020
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Pereira, Orlando, et al. "Education: Instrument for Socio-Economic and Humanizing Development." Handbook of Research on Transdisciplinary Knowledge Generation, edited by Viktor Wang, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 284-295. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9531-1.ch020

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Pereira, O., Gomes, D. G., Martins, A., & Martins, I. (2019). Education: Instrument for Socio-Economic and Humanizing Development. In V. Wang (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Transdisciplinary Knowledge Generation (pp. 284-295). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9531-1.ch020

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Pereira, Orlando, et al. "Education: Instrument for Socio-Economic and Humanizing Development." In Handbook of Research on Transdisciplinary Knowledge Generation, edited by Viktor Wang, 284-295. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9531-1.ch020

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the role of education in “humanizing the economy” and emphasizes its contribution to the development of a new socio-economic model that helps to overcome the irregularities present in contemporary society. It proposes the implementation of school practices aimed at the completeness of the individual and in favor of social balance. It also emphasizes the importance of the humanizing process in the attainment of values such as, justice, freedom, solidarity and cooperation, which are structuring values of social cohesion. The primary data focused on the Secondary Education in the Districts of Braga and Viana do Castelo, in the northwest of Portugal. Interviews were conducted with school principals as main actors in the research. In spite of the limitations of the work, the results show that, in Portugal, education is still focused on individualism. It is also noted that assimilation of social aspects and humanization is weak, which inhibits placing the individual at the center of economic concerns and produces negative externalities on economic and social performance including wellbeing.

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