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Front. Sociol.
Sec. Sociological Theory
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1567675
This article is part of the Research TopicRecognition and Critical Social ResearchView all articles
The classroom as a space of resistance. Cooperation, gratitude and collective memory between neuroscience and social science
Provisionally accepted
- 1Universidad de Atacama, Copiapó, Chile
- 2Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, Alsace, France
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This article explores social transformation through pedagogy, historical consciousness, social science, and neuroscience.Modern educational systems perpetuate social hierarchies. The meritocratic narrative of neoliberalism is a new form of social Darwinism. Behind this illusion lie the mechanisms of accumulated history, social reproduction, and the inheritance of economic, social, cultural, and symbolic capitals. Collective memory is one of these capitals, cultivated by the elites. In contrast, the memory of the vanquished fades into oblivion. Therefore, democratic pedagogy aims to build collective memory and a historical consciousness of equality, inequality, and human rights. This project requires cognitive and methodological tools for both teachers and students. Our proposal is both theoretical and practical. Theoretically, we aim to build a historical awareness and resilience capacities to adress the algorithmic colonization. Cooperative pedagogy and neuroscience bring constructive tools. This approach fosters a new rationalism and complex thinking that unifies natural, social, and human sciences into a cohesive pedagogical praxis.We propose to build collective memory and historical awareness among students, pedagogical team and families. This involves teacher training, an emotional and prosocial climate, cooperative skills, historical research teams, collecting of family memories, and collective synthesis. The project fosters social bonds and skills for democratic sovereignty.
Keywords: social science, Neuroscience, Education, cooperation, Gratitude, History, Memory, Human Rights
Received: 27 Jan 2025; Accepted: 30 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Parada Ulloa and Mollés. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Marcos Parada Ulloa, Universidad de Atacama, Copiapó, Chile
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