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School Day of Non-Violence and Peace in Memoriam Nº 2 ISSN 2255-033X Con el apoyo de la Oficina de Santiago Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura JANUARY 30TH: SCHOOL DAY OF NON-VIOLENCE AND PEACE IN MEMORIAM... “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” Mohandas Gandhi On January 30th, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was murdered, and Махатма Ганди был убит 30-го января 1948 года, и с 1964 since 1964 the Day of Non-violence and Peace has been в школах по всему миру проводится День Мира и celebrated at schools from all over the world. This edition has Ненасилия. Это действие имеет социально-психолого- the socio-psycho-pedagogic goal to promote the педагогическую цель способствованию многомерному multidimensional resolution of all disputes. разрешению всех споров. El día 30 de enero de 1948 fue asesinado Mohandas Gandhi, No dia 30 de janeiro de 1948 foi assassinado Mohandas y desde 1964 se viene celebrando en los colegios de todo el Gandhi, e desde 1964 vem sendo celebrado nos colégios de mundo, el Día Escolar de la No Violencia y de la Paz. La todo o mundo o Dia Escolar da Não-Violência e da PAZ. A presente edición tiene la finalidad psico-socio-pedagógica presente edição tem a finalidade psico-socio-pedagógica de de promover la resolución multidimensional de todos los promover a resolução multidimensional de todos os conflitos. conflictos. Le 30 Janvier 1948, Mahatma Gandhi a été assassiné, et A/2A ۳۰DE@ ١٩٨٤، :< ا8)=/ل ا%;/:9/ 8/7$ي، و123 0/م ١٩٦٤ ا()$أت ا%$ارس depuis 1964, a lieu dans les écoles à travers le monde la (/S(TG/ل (=Rم اQ20OI واOPIم N=9F DE أM7/ء ا1J .>I/KIا اI;$ف اJournée Scolaire de la Non-violence et de la Paix. 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Harmonious develops a real neuronal constellation of interpersonal solidarity through a common melodies of social, individual and anthropological metamorphosis, which will minimum curricular, where universal ethical values serve as the fundamental represent the polyphonic-epistemological basis, in order to visualize altruistic and meeting point, emanated from Human Rights and the Universal Declaration of environmentally sustainable scenarios. In this sense, the world-society must develop Democracy. new multidimensional synergies of glocal nature to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) performance, because they are systemic, interconnected ! A common minimum curricular unifying force of heterogeneity and pluralism, and interdependent targets: just like our own neural connections in our brains. because when it is about music, art, literature, philosophy and thought, cultural globalization do not tend to uniformity, but rather the opposite: the world´s cultures ! Consequently, we must contextualize the MDGs under a radical, creative and are fertilized themselves engendering planetary children. We talk about the need to holistic epistemological perception, which considers the world-society integrated in create a transcultural, mixed birth, hybrid and cosmopolitan educational process, its entirety, and not as the sum of its parts dissociated from each other. An which acts as a new vibration pattern, as crossing waves in water. We talk about the epistemological change in which transdisciplinary approach is simultaneously based reconceptualization of schools and its social function as psychological builders of on plurality and unity of current’s planetary setting emergency of knowledge society, future generations’ citizens. which corresponds to the common-responsibility of everyone with everything. Thus, humanity must promote new educational networks of altruistic cooperation that ! We talk about re-baptize schools and empower them. Moreover, saving them symbolize a symphony orchestra that spreads of world peace. from academic drift and moving them into a global social reality: where 40,000 people die every day from causes stemming from extreme poverty. We talk about ! In this way, as school microcosm embodies the true reflection of social creating NGOs-schools, which are twinned with one another, and which develop structures macrocosm, of their own phenomenological and hermeneutical context, altruistic educational projects of cooperation in all corners of the Earth-Homeland. the future of humanity passes by the curricular (re)adjustment of the present We talk, in short, of becoming aware of the responsibility to build, today, tomorrow´s education systems before the globalizing techno-economist dynamics. This is schools. Some schools should be internationally organized, in peaceful scenarios and challenge that requires deep educational innovations of global willingness that non-violent ways, as a true symphony orchestra of interconnected consciousness- promotes intrinsic reforms from its own ontological nature of the ecology of the galaxies, because on them will depend the real educational praxis transformation of intelligence; and become, ultimately, in the genesis of a cognitive democracy: the world. composed by new transcultural and transpolitical symbiosis between the different civilizations that have been formed on the earthly homeland in the last six millenniums. ! To achieve this, it is essential to understand the synaptic response that neuropedagogy provide for us, because the altruistic help actions to our neighbor Javier Colado Ruano activates the same biochemical processes of cerebral reward which release the inside Director of Edition 3 La Constlación de Escuelas-ONGs hermanadas: una Sinfonía de Solidaridad Intrpersonal ¡Bienvenidos/as a Global Education Magazine! Un proyecto concientizador que mismos procesos bioquímicos de recompensa cerebral que liberan los nace para humanizar la acción educativa a través de los compases pedagógicos que neurotransmisores de la felicidad genuina interior (como la dopamina, la serotonina marcarán las melodías pacíficas del siglo XXI. Melodías armoniosas de metamorfo- y la acetilcolina). Es precisa, por consiguiente, una transformación reestructural que sis social, individual y antropológica, que representarán el fundamento polifónico- desarrolle una auténtica constelación neuronal de solidaridad interpersonal a través epistemológico para la visualización de escenarios altruistas y ecológicamente de un mínimo común curricular, cuyo punto de encuentro sean los valores éticos sostenibles. En este sentido, la sociedad-mundo deberá desarrollar nuevas sinergias universales, emanados de los Derechos Humanos y la Declaración Universal de la multidimensionales de carácter glocal para alcanzar el cumplimiento de los Democracia. Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM), pues se tratan de metas sistémicas, interligadas e interdependientes: como las mismas conexiones neuronales de ! Un mínimo común curricular vertebrador de heterogeneidad y plurarismo, nuestros cerebros. pues cuando se trata de música, arte, literatura, filosofía y pensamiento, la mundialización cultural no tiende a la homogeneidad, sino más bien lo contrario: las ! En consecuencia, debemos contextualizar los ODM bajo una percepción culturas del mundo entero se fecundan entre ellas engendrando hijos planetarios. epistemológica radical, creativa y holística, que contemple a la sociedad-mundo Hablamos de la necesidad de crear un proceso educativo mestizo, transcultural, como una totalidad integrada, y no como la suma de sus partes disociadas entre sí. híbrido y cosmopolita, que actúe como un nuevo patrón de vibración, como las Un cambio epistemológico cuyo enfoque transdisciplinar se base simultáneamente ondas cuando se cruzan en el agua. Hablamos de la reconceptualización de las en la pluralidad y en la unidad de la actual emergencia planetaria de la sociedad del escuelas y de su función social de construcción psicológica de las futuras conocimiento, lo que corresponde a la común-responsabilidad de todos con todo. Por generaciones ciudadanas. ende, la humanidad debe promover nuevas redes educativas de cooperación altruista que simbolicen una orquesta sinfónica divulgadora de la paz mundial. ! Hablamos de rebautizar las escuelas y empoderarlas, de salvarlas de la deriva academicista y trasladarlas a la esfera de la realidad social mundial: donde cada día ! De este modo, dado que el microcosmos escolar encarna el fiel reflejo del mueren 40.000 personas por causas derivadas de la pobreza extrema. Hablamos de macrocosmos de las estructuras sociales, de su contexto fenomenológico y crear escuelas-ONGs, que se hermanen entre ellas, y que desarrollen proyectos hermenéutico, el futuro de la humanidad pasa por el (re)ajuste curricular de los educativos altruistas de cooperación en todos los rincones de la Tierra-Patria. actuales sistemas educativos ante las dinámicas tecnoeconomicistas globalizadoras. Hablamos, en definitiva, de tomar consciencia de la responsabilidad de construir, Un reto que
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