Antonio Novoa – författare

Fabricating Europe has within it a core idea, a crucial but imprecise idea, that of a European educational space, which transnational governance, networks and cultural and economic projects are creating now. Yet, the perceptible creation of this contemporary space of European policy making and networking has not been a subject of study. It appears offstage in studies of national systems in which national and professional identity; political organization; policy formation and public/private markets are all viewed as contained within the borders of the state.Fabricating Europe is concerned with the new possibilities to be discerned and imagined in the European public and institutional spaces and discourses in education and the lack of impetus within the broad area of educational studies to meet the task of creating analyses and responses.

Fabricating Europe has within it a core idea, a crucial but imprecise idea, that of a European educational space, which transnational governance, networks and cultural and economic projects are creating now. Yet, the perceptible creation of this contemporary space of European policy making and networking has not been a subject of study. It appears offstage in studies of national systems in which national and professional identity; political organization; policy formation and public/private markets are all viewed as contained within the borders of the state.Fabricating Europe is concerned with the new possibilities to be discerned and imagined in the European public and institutional spaces and discourses in education and the lack of impetus within the broad area of educational studies to meet the task of creating analyses and responses.

Las profesoras y profesores que hoy habitan las escuelas son la generacion del cambio. Durante su vida profesional, la educacion y la ensenanza van a cambiar profundamente. Aunque existe un gran malestar debido a la falta de reconocimiento del profesorado y a toda la incertidumbre que rodea su futuro, tenemos que ser capaces de un gesto de esperanza. No se trata de un optimismo ingenuo, sino de una esperanza que se aprende y se cultiva en comun. Lo mas importante es que seamos capaces de liberar el futuro, subtitulo adoptado para este libro, inspirado en Ivan Illich. Nadie sabe como sera el futuro y ni siquiera merece la pena intentar adivinarlo. Pero tenemos la obligacion de hacer todo lo que este en nuestras manos para no cerrar la posibilidad de que exista futuro, para garantizar la libertad a las proximas generaciones. El libro gira en torno a estas ideas fuerza: a) que la educacion publica es la herramienta mas potente (quizas la unica que nos queda) para construir un futuro en libertad; b) que se precisa un nuevo contrato social para la educacion que asuma como principios basicos la justicia social, la dignidad humana y la diversidad cultural; c) que no hay nada que sustituya a un buen profesor; d) que la escuela del futuro solo sera posible si se concibe como un bien publico que exige la cooperacion y el compromiso de todos.