The educational altertopia as political resistance
Abstract
Caring for oneself is caring for what is most human in each one of us. The nuclear idea is always the same: that what is essentially human can intensify and grow. And that always the danger resides in degeneration. To intensify the human is to favor what is the “more human”. This is not "overcoming" or "going beyond" the human. This paper attempts to relate Foucault's reading of the topic of self-care with the urgent need to rethink the place of education as a proper place for that care today. To this end, the concept of educational altertopia is proposed, as a place of resistance to the domain of contextual banality.
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