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A New Social Contract Pedagogy

Interview with Carlos Torres: Do we need a New Social Contract Pedagogy for our age of extremes? Reconstructing Freirean concepts on citizenship and education for a deliberative democracy.

Link to keynote HERE, September 2021

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The Sustainable Development Goals Online collection, or SDGO, is a huge specialist online library created by Taylor & Francis to support the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDGO is the most comprehensive resource of its kind. It provides high-quality, peer-reviewed knowledge for many of the world’s 200 million higher education students, their tutors, and the researchers in their universities as they learn about, research, and work out how to address what some are calling the ‘world’s biggest change programme’

 

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Carlos Alberto Torres in Erfurt, Germany, September 30, 2018. (picture taken by Ana Elvira Steinbach Torres)

In the second semester of 2018 Professor Torres spent his sabbatical in Germany, working as a Senior Fellow at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena which is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.

Erfurt is a famous city in Germany. Max Weber, one of the founders of the discipline of sociology, was born in this city. Erfurt is the home of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Max-Weber- Kolleg) of the University of Erfurt. The Max-Weber-Kolleg combines the functions of an Institute for Advances Studies and a Graduate School.

CONTACT INFORMATION

  • Carlos Alberto Torres,  Distinguished Professor, UNESCO Chair on Global learning and Global Citizenship Education, and Director, Paulo Freire Institute. 
  • UNESCO UCLA Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education
  • 310-206-3167
  • 310-206-5830
  • torres@gseis.ucla.edu
  • www.pfigce.org