Alterity, Values, and Socialization

Criticizes the absence of concern over the quality of the human interactions and relations in schools
Stresses the fundamental role of self-other relationships and communication in human development
Emphasizes the urgency for dialogical practices and ethical orientation within pedagogical contexts
Introduces new ways to prepare teachers for dealing with social issues in the classroom
Suggest new ways to approach the gaps and contradictions of the system to promote actual transformation

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Introduction. The Role of Alterity and Social Values in Promoting Human Development Within Educational Contexts.- Chapter 1. Chronotopic Analysis of Values in Critical Ontological Dialogic Pedagogy.- Chapter 2. Values, Education and Human Development: The Major Role of Social Interactions' Quality within Classroom Cultural Contexts.- Chapter 3. Distributed and Participatory Creativity as a Form of Cultural Empowerment: The Role of Alterity, Difference and Collaboration.- Chapter 4. Individual Achievement and Social Progress: Mending the Broken Alliance between School and the Community in India.- Chapter 5. Identity and Belonging in Third Culture Kids: Alterity and Values in Focus.- Chapter 6. Ethics and Alterity: The Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Higher Education.- Chapter 7. Social Dynamics and Students' Developmental Perspectives within a School Located in a Poor Urban Community in Brasilia.- Chapter 8. Intersubjectivity in Action: Negotiations of Self, Other andKnowledge in Students' Talk.- Chapter 9. Diversity, Social Identities and Alterity: Deconstructing Prejudices in Schools.- Chapter 10. Continuity and Discontinuities in the Self System: A Values-Based Idiographic Analysis of Gender Positionings.- Chapter 11. Final Remarks. Encouraging Dialogical Practices to Mediate Prosocial Values in Educational Contexts. <p