On 27th November, from 1 pm to 2 pm, there will be another Reading Club session, this time dedicated to solidarity and love for one's neighbour.
For this session, we have invited Joaquim Azevedo, retired professor at the Catholic University of Portugal. The session will be moderated by António Torres Marques, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. The session will take place in the library, on Floor 0, room C003 (former bookshop).
In this session of the Reading Club, dedicated to solidarity, we have selected some works that reveal gestures of empathy, friendship, resistance, and sharing.
Through these works, we invite you to travel through different times, places and voices, discovering how solidarity manifests itself in small actions, collective struggles and silent gestures of empathy. Humanity resists when someone reaches out to another.
Joaquim Azevedo is also the author of the book “Modo de Produção da Exclusão Escolar: Olhar a escola a partir dos excluídos” (The Mode of Production of School Exclusion: Looking at school from the perspective of the excluded), which depicts school dropout and student marginalisation. In this session, Joaquim Azevedo will present his views on education and inclusion.
Book’s Synopsis
Fifty years after 25th April, looking at school from the perspective of those citizens it excludes can help us better understand the unnoticed, continuous and inhumane way in which school exclusion continues to be practiced in “inclusive schools”. The analysis of ‘individual student cases’ who have been marginalized and have dropped out of our public schools brings to light the persistent ‘mode of production of school exclusion’ and illuminates the role of the school in the humiliation and marginalization of some students.
This unveiling is intended to be another step towards building a more equitable and fair school system.
Take part in this Reading Club session!
For more information, contact agora@fe.up.pt
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