El “respeto a la diversidad” en la escuela: atolladeros del relativismo cultural como principio moral

“Respect for diversity” included in normative and curricular texts on Argentinean educative system represent an opportunity to reflect about cultural relativism in its potential for criticism and its limits as a moral principle. This article analyzes the uses of precepts that emerge at schools as a...

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Main Authors: Graciela Batallán, Silvana Campanini
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2007-12-01
Series:Revista de Antropología Social
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RASO/article/view/9988
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description “Respect for diversity” included in normative and curricular texts on Argentinean educative system represent an opportunity to reflect about cultural relativism in its potential for criticism and its limits as a moral principle. This article analyzes the uses of precepts that emerge at schools as a product of a contradictory bond between contemporary democratic principles for the institution and conceptual frames about social life and learning. Also, this article aims to relocate relativism’s analytic capacity as a tool against ethnocentrism, both in order to both elaborate the inherent conflict on school’s practices and also as a cultural critique –sensitive to that institution’s specific logic–.
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spelling doaj.art-d851f3b8f62a48018a224857933309922022-12-22T03:38:12ZspaUniversidad Complutense de MadridRevista de Antropología Social1131-558X1988-28312007-12-011615917410.5209/rev_RASO.2007.v16.99889979El “respeto a la diversidad” en la escuela: atolladeros del relativismo cultural como principio moralGraciela BatallánSilvana Campanini“Respect for diversity” included in normative and curricular texts on Argentinean educative system represent an opportunity to reflect about cultural relativism in its potential for criticism and its limits as a moral principle. This article analyzes the uses of precepts that emerge at schools as a product of a contradictory bond between contemporary democratic principles for the institution and conceptual frames about social life and learning. Also, this article aims to relocate relativism’s analytic capacity as a tool against ethnocentrism, both in order to both elaborate the inherent conflict on school’s practices and also as a cultural critique –sensitive to that institution’s specific logic–.http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RASO/article/view/9988EducationRespect to diversityCultural relativismAlterityCurriculumSchool’s democratization
spellingShingle Graciela Batallán
Silvana Campanini
El “respeto a la diversidad” en la escuela: atolladeros del relativismo cultural como principio moral
Revista de Antropología Social
Education
Respect to diversity
Cultural relativism
Alterity
Curriculum
School’s democratization
title El “respeto a la diversidad” en la escuela: atolladeros del relativismo cultural como principio moral
title_full El “respeto a la diversidad” en la escuela: atolladeros del relativismo cultural como principio moral
title_fullStr El “respeto a la diversidad” en la escuela: atolladeros del relativismo cultural como principio moral
title_full_unstemmed El “respeto a la diversidad” en la escuela: atolladeros del relativismo cultural como principio moral
title_short El “respeto a la diversidad” en la escuela: atolladeros del relativismo cultural como principio moral
title_sort el respeto a la diversidad en la escuela atolladeros del relativismo cultural como principio moral
topic Education
Respect to diversity
Cultural relativism
Alterity
Curriculum
School’s democratization
url http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RASO/article/view/9988
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