A Praise of Dignity in Educational Practice

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the meaning that the dignity of the daily task of promoting and accompanying learning has for Latin American educators. The author proposes praises related to this task: dignity, proximity, difference, serenity, clarity, writing, the emergence of voices, intellectual work, the time of the educator, the communicational pedagogical approach. In the context of these praises, pedagogy deals with the dignity of all those who constitute the foundation of the educational act: students and educators, who must be supported and motivated in their learning process. And since dignity is not assured but is rather in a permanent process of construction against the threats of humiliation, we have the permanent task of sustaining our pedagogy on a communicational basis, stubbornly determined to support the construction of dignity. It is in favor of that pedagogy that we communicate.