Waching daily Jul 30 2018

Greetings to everyone attending the 7th International Congress of Education and Learning!

Unfortunately, I cannot be there with you all

in Paris, France, the land of Deleuze and Guattari,

authors who inspired me to write the book:

Re-inventing Inclusion: The Challenges of Differences

in the Teaching and Learning Process",

a result of my postdoctoral research.

Since I'm couldn't be there

i would like to greet and thank the

the Congress Organization as well as

the Scientific Committee for granting me

the 3rd International Award for Practice in Education and Learning.

It is an honor for me to receive

this appreciation from all of you.

Thank you very much!

Difference is not just a quality

or feature of some people.

The difference belongs to humankind.

Therefore, we must consider

it as an important element

during the inclusion process

egardless of their singularities,

origins, race, gender, religion, borders.

I truly hope that difference,

which is our greatest feature as humans,

in addition to love, the "amor mundi" (love of the world),

the one that has no borders,

may influence all of us

to create more positive results for new methodologies,

to develop new approaches and

a wide understanding about humankind

starting from the idea that

education is a right that is entitled to every citizen.

I would like to dedicate this work

to all of you at the congress

and also to all the children, immigrants,

and every person that is part of this "minority" group.

And I also would like to dedicate

this work to our former president Lula,

the person who invested the most

in the social inclusion of the less fortunate citizens

here in Brazil.