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Education for community cohesion is the process of enabling every human being to acquire and develop the competencies needed to be part of a community that works as a harmonic and functional system capable of achieving the SDGs. Individuals in cohesive communities have resilient social relations, a positive emotional connectedness, shared values, a common vision, and a sense of belonging enriched by cultural, religious, social, political, economic, and biological diversity.
Related Concepts
Social integration: Despite the use of the term cohesion interchangeably with integration, they refer to different subjects. While integration refers to the conditions required to make cohesion possible, cohesion is the social consequence of integration.
Social cohesion: Social cohesion is widely used in the European community although its ideals and practices vary between states; three main approaches can be identified (Green et al. 2009). The first is based on the belief that...
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Figueroa Vélez, J., Rico Ardila, E. (2019). Education for Community Cohesion. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Quality Education. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69902-8_56-1
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