Education is an encounter with the other

Abstract

The title of this issue of the Bulletin Redipe Magazine honors the editorial article prepared by the Spanish pedagogue Pedro Ortega Ruiz, creator of the Pedagogy of Otherness perspective, member of the Quality Committee of the Ibero-American Pedagogy Network and coordinator of the International Network of Pedagogy of Otherness, Ripal. In it, the author emphatically states that in education the time has come to "do things well", not to prolong, over time, a situation that, clearly, demands from everyone a determined action to change course and find, among all, a different way of educating more respectful with the other for whom we are responsible. The possibility of building a community in which nobody feels an object, subject to the will of power, but rather a citizen, owner of his own destiny, goes through it. Education affects, by its very nature, in all dimensions of the person, also in the social sphere. There is no indifferent or neutral education to what each student lives, to the circumstances of his existence. It is always the other, in the reality of his existence, in the warp of his life, the recipient of the educating action. To educate is to help the construction of a new creature (person) and a new society, in accordance with the ethical principles of justice and solidarity. The education of the new generations is an impossible task to perform if you do not have some convictions (values) minimally settled on what is the world in which you live, on man and on yourself. Only on these convictions is it possible to educate, and only on them is it possible to live as humans.