Sinergias Journal Issue Now Available

Issue 18 of Sinergias – Educational Dialogues for Social Transformation is now available, once again dedicated to the theme “Democracy(ies): transforming oppressive paradigms of power through Development Education.”

Under this theme, the new issue highlights the importance of continuing to reflect on democracy, at a time when it remains urgent to think it through, practice it, and reinvent it.

As the etymology of the word reminds us, democracy literally means “the power of the people.” However, between its original meaning and current practices, there are tensions and contradictions that Development Education and Global Citizenship Education continually seek to shed light on and transform.

This new issue therefore emerges as a continuation and deepening of the path begun in the previous edition, recognizing that much has already been discussed, but that there is still more to question, rethink, and propose.

Join us in these critical dialogues, composed of multiple voices, experiences, and perspectives, and let yourself be inspired to build, together with others, new ways of living and strengthening Democracy.

INDEX

EDITORIAL
Andreia Reis & Amanda Franco

THEMATIC DOSSIER
Podem as crianças contribuir para a qualidade da governação local?
Desirée Seixas

Legislative theatre in practice: Insights from Estudantes por Empréstimo
Mariana Rosa, Roberto Falanga & João Amorim

Educação para a democracia em tempos de algocracia
Manuel Gonçalves Barbosa

OTHER ARTICLES
Educação para a cidadania global: Contributos para um compromisso com o diálogo social
Fátima Carneiro

PRACTICES
Associações populares e democracia participativa: Raízes e horizontes de um projeto em curso
Maria João Antunes, Isabel Timóteo, Hugo Monteiro, Cátia Rocha & Teresa Martins

Assembleias Cidadãs em Portugal: 2015-25
Alcides Barbosa

À oliveira democrática, o vento leva a flor
Carlota Quintão, Joana Costa, Marta da Costa & Sara Borges

DEBATE 
Sahara Ocidental: 50 anos de invisibilização, e agora?
Luísa Teotónio Pereira

INTERVIEW
Diálogo com Lucília Salgado

CRITICAL REVIEW
Referencial de direitos humanos: Reflexões e perspetivas à luz da democracia
Andreia Reis & Sara Monteiro

Foram para fora, construíram cá dentro: recensão sobre o livro “Exílios no feminino: Sete percursos de luta e de esperança”
Amanda Franco & Mário Montez

Calming upset people with EAR
Albertina Raposo & Filomena Ferreira

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Práticas promissoras em contexto: Transferibilidades de esperança com jovens e profissionais da educação