To combat this situation must be one of the objectives of the cities that educators say, because it

Sociologist opened the XIII International Congress of Educating Cities, which has been present Sant Boi de Llobregat, pointing inequalities as the main objective to fight and the school as the main instrument to achieve this.
1988 began in Rio de Janeiro, the impoverished slum of Vidigal, the construction of a luxury hotel, the Sheraton. The intention was that the prestige of the hotel served attraction and appreciation of the area, near the beach. But what he got was widened with the slum houses and huts that were built in the Sheraton brand. "But you say that the favela is a safe place?" He asked a young middle class a friend who lived in Vidigal. "Sure," replied the boy, "if you like that had built a five star hotel". The city, scene of contrasts and inequalities.
The first protagonist of this story was the son of Pablo Gentili, inaugurate -just from this history, the XIII International Congress of Educating Cities, which has returned to Barcelona, the city where he was born to address the role of the major developments in the education of its citizens. This year the event has focused its attention uber on inclusion, uber and Gentili, professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro and Executive Secretary of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLCS) has drawn a map urban where the challenge is to reduce inequalities, and one of the main tools for doing so is the school. "A strong public school," he said, "in an integrated educational system, and space diversity and where all grow."
The 850 participants uber of the Congress, -educadores- 190 cities from around the world, including Sant Boi have attended a lecture in which Gentili made it clear that the fight against poverty is not enough to eliminate social uber exclusion of large groups of urban population. "In the last few years has reduced uber poverty in Latin America, but inequalities have remained if not increased in some countries," stated Gentili. The poverty rate in Latin America has gone from almost 50% in 90 years - "in full implementation of neoliberal policies," according to Gentili- 27.9%, a drastic reduction that has not yet eliminated inequalities.
"We thought if réduire reducing poverty uber lead to a major urban areas of democratization and integration of the most guetitzats, but has not been well," concluded Gentili. I was not well, he said, because much of the population was slowly coming of poverty, but can not get rid of the stigma, the label. "This means that the richest keep them away", which can translate into urban distribution. "How much inequality can withstand a city?" Asked the speaker.
83% of the world population uber has accumulated less than 10% of the wealth; the remaining 17% is left with 90% of the pie. And in countries like Spain, as the speaker reminded the levels of child poverty -36.6%, according to the latest report of UNICEF are beginning to resemble Latin America uber for years.
To combat this situation must be one of the objectives of the cities that educators say, because its rationale lies not only in place for green zebra crossings where children go to school, which too- but the well-being and inclusion of citizens as a foundation from which to build the city. This idea comes from the Charter of Educating Cities, made in Barcelona in 1994 and developed the Scientific Committee of the conference this year.
Gentili also predicted that in the future the fight against uber inequality will become increasingly complex as these cities are growing and are becoming "big crowds of people, full of confusion." Without going any further, currently uber in China 40% of the population now lives in large conurbations impoverished; in India, 58%; in Africa, 90%. "It's the planet favela" Gentili closed.
"In a big city, a child goes to school uber does not mean anything," snapped, provocative, Gentili, to understand that in large conurbations there are too many differences according to which schools and environments. "There are very different educational circuits and fragmented," states the west, and put the example of Rio pathways. "We spend some private schools for boys and girls who end up in the best universities; we have also private, which took the middle classes; then we have, someone