Abstract
The economic agenda assigned to education on the basis of human capital contributes to the de-socialization and deterritorialization of educational action, and leads to a weakening rather than a strengthening of schools in their function as institutions of society. Yet, successive crisis contexts, whether they concern climate, security or health, contribute to a collective awareness of the importance of education and the transmission of democratic values in the construction of societies that are both more inclusive and more enlightened about the major challenges of the time. Our purpose is to explore and stress the global and decisive function of a democratic and humanistic education in accordance to these principles, to take the lead, in the troubled times we face, in the global promotion of a humanistic, inclusive and cosmopolitan ideal of cultures, education and societies.
