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Youth and changing realities: rethinking secondary education in Latin America
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
Paris | 2017 | 75 p.
Author: 
López.Néstor, Opertti.Renato, Vargas Tamez.Carlos
Corporate author: 
UNESCO International Bureau of Education, UNESCO. IIEP Buenos Aires. Sede Regional, UNESCO. Assistant Director-General for Education, 2010-2018 (Qian Tang)
Region: 
Latin America and the Caribbean

 

Youth are central to UNESCO’s mandate. The more than one billion youth and adolescents in the world today hold the key to our shared future and to global sustainable development. With a focus on Latin America, this publication addresses the need to regain young learners’ trust in education and to arrive at more positive social constructions of youth among educators, parents and education authorities. In so doing, this study looks at educational experiences as meaning makers that shape youth cultures and identities as well as their attitudes toward education and its potential to improve individual and collective well-being.

 

Resource Type: 
Research papers / journal articles
Theme: 
Civic / Citizenship / Democracy
Globalisation and social justice / International understanding
Diversity / cultural literacy / inclusive
Sustainable development / sustainability
Transformative initiatives / Transformative pedagogies
Level of education: 
Secondary education