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The Curriculum, Culture and Society Studies Group - NECCSO - was organized by researchers whose main interest is the contemporary cultural analyses of education. The initial impulse for the group’s action and the option for cultural themes and the multidisciplinary approach are consequence of shared agreement about the significance of cultural studies related to educational field. The crucial educational questions must, at the present time, contemplate cultural diversity, the social relations’s multiplicity and the discourse orders that produce what we understand as “educational reality”. NECCSO’s main target is encouraging studies and initiatives that may have any impact or social echo on and contribute to designing democratic social policies. |
Ongoing and under-project studies at NECCSO are about problematisations involving cultural practice and artefacts. The approach we have used favours issues such as language, power, discourse and representation. Artefacts, normative and prescriptive devices (films, newspapers, magazines, pictures, songs, ads, books, laws, rhetoric, methods, styles, religious codes, tradition, etc.), among so many cultural productions, constitute fertile fields for our analysis. We share the belief that understanding how these artefacts operate critically act upon our decisions and educational choices. From this perspective, among others that may appear, the following shape the objectives for the studies... |
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