New horizons for critical-emancipatory education research: the contributions of Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism
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https://doi.org/10.30854/anf.v30.n55.2023.939Keywords:
Educación, Ciencias Sociales, Marxismo, Realismo Crítico, PobrezaAbstract
Objective: The following text shows the potential contributions offered by critical realism when it comes to generating an educational research structure that allows bringing to light knowledge that traditional educational research fails to show. Methodology: To do this, the following text reflects theoretically on how the study and analysis of social inclusion and anti-poverty programs existing in advanced Western societies could be approached through the analytical prism of critical realism. Results: Thus, from the analytical tools of critical realism, the limitations of these programs will be shown, both in their basic foundations and in their educational proposals for
training for employability. Conclusions: Based on such limitations, alternative paths can be indicated in order to achieve a fairer society, among others the proposal for a universal basic income.
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