Summary: | This paper proposes the construction of new spaces for democratic debate,
called new agoras, which would form systems or networks for constructing
educational policies. The systems would be non-hierarchical, where each part
feeds and is fed by the others, and each new agora would be guided by ethical
knowledge, emancipatory knowledge and multiculturalism. The paper also
proposes a reconfiguration of the state also guided by ethics and
multiculturalism which we call the coordinator-articulator state. We argue
that this autopoietic system, in synergy with the coordinator-articulator state,
would lead to the formulation of emancipatory education policies. Rather than
seeking "the" alternative, the aim is to develop a theoretical proposal that will
permit the elaboration of public policies that have emancipatory projects as
their aim.
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