Education with diversity, society with sustainability / Educação com diversidade, sociedade com sustentabilidade

Abstract

The text is an expression of the reflections made from the invitation to give a lecture at the IX Scientific and Cultural Meeting (ENCCULT) in Maceió in August 2019. The theme “Education with diversity, society with sustainability” was divided into two parts, the first on the provocative issue of Education for Diversity, taking into account our challenging reality. The second part, transits from the perspective that within this challenging scenario, sustainability becomes a difficult goal to reach. At the end of the text, I question that sustainability is a little possible dream in this biased universe of commodification of hegemonizing politics and education, linked to it, but speaking of hope, I argue that the transgressive perspective of culture and education is a possible way through the strategies of communication with the other's world. To find the possibilities of strengthening counter-hegemony, we have the possible clues: in socially referenced science, in education of social responsibility, in the culture of recognition of diversity, in organizations and collective struggles, and in the consolidation of democracy.

Keywords

• education
• diversity
• sustainability