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Social crisis, authoritarism & education

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Social crisis, authoritarism & education Educators for Active Nonviolence are concerned with the direction of the changes which we are now living and are proposing to work with methods of Active nonviolence in order to give human meaning to personal and social changes. Educators for Active nonviolence aspire to generate an educational alternative capable of constructing news proposals and concrete pedagogical practices.  No one any longer disputes the fact that society is changing faster and faster and geneted crisis. But while the crisis contains the possibility of opening ourselves to new perspectives to allow people and human being to evolve voices are also being raised that propose more regressive and authoritarian alternatives. Education should give some answer to the social crisis, but it's clear to do this we need a profound change in the educational system. We also need to humanizes our personal life and humanizes the school system. Teachers must be a referenc