Why make a forum education? able to be one of the questions we deal with this. We also have thousands of questions and we are going to respond with others who also have questions and they are willing to get answers, truths that are built and we can collectively move forward in the discussion to continue more advanced and the many others . That is why we believe in education as a tool to allow the oppressed go find the way to emancipation, from the recognition of self and others, to feel that we are not alone or lonely. Therefore, as Freire would say: "None knows nothing. No one knows everything. That's why I always learn"
Why for social change? Because we do not agree with the reality that exists and we want to transform it. This transformation, we will not be the product of an isolated subject, but it will be the work of the unification of multiple sectors, from construction of popular power, we can go about doing meat today, the desires of tomorrow. Because we are convinced that no other alternative, a Latin Americanist, anti-capitalist, who favors the groundwork and the participation of everyone in the process of emancipation.
So why a forum of education for social change? For we believe that as we travel on university subjects have to give strength to the strategies that the system imposed on us from daily life in classrooms, in hallways, in texts on knowledge. Because we believe that the university can contribute to building the people's power to seek emancipation and for this it is necessary to meet with other sectors, with other experiences with others in order to be reflecting on the fight that every day we and feel that we are not alone, nor alone.
shafts this year's forum will discuss are some of the discussions that took place in the first forum in the city of La Plata, where we still have concerns, but without ignoring the issues this year be part of our everyday:
- union organization and precarious employment.
- Educational Reforms.
- Commodification of knowledge, extension and vocational and technical training.
- Experiences alternatives in education.
- Education and Art.
- Education, sexuality and gender.
- educational prospects in Latin America
- Education and media.
- Bicentennial: Education 200 years later.
Panels:
Argentina in Our America: reconstructing 200 years of popular struggle.
- participate: Hernán Ouviña, Hector Schmucler and others (to be confirmed).
Our America is now fighting a huge battle for freedom. America is fighting today as two centuries ago, being independent, free and sovereign.
The Argentine people is not, by choice or by condition, unrelated to this historic development. Today at 200 years of struggle and resistance more than ever we must frame the projects contrehegemonicos and resistance that occurred throughout our history.
why it is necessary to discuss about the outstanding achievements and claim the role of grassroots organizing for social change.
Alternative Practices and democratization of knowledge: alternative educational experiences inside and outside the formal education system.
- participate: Roberto Elizalde - Area of \u200b\u200bEducation FPDS - MNCI
Our current public education has the function of reproducing social inequalities encouraged by government policies throughout our history. The school seeks to exclude or exclude a sector of society, making it the unit ideological state for excellence to maintain the established order. As our struggle for social change recognizes this sector as a major subject in the transformation process, legitimize alternative educational experiences that occur within and outside the formal education system. These practices deepen the democratization of knowledge without disregarding the tools offered by the formal education system.
Art as a political tool. Towards decolonization teaching.
- participate: Griselda Osorio - Guillermo Alesio (others tbc)
From the decade of 60 onwards in our country, there were different experiences in the articulation between art and experience sustained and deepened politica.Estas a series of explicit positions that challenged established or redefined the notion of "work", "art", "artist" while the concept of the "political"
Today in a social context, completely different economic discussions is necessary to generate further and deepen the role of art in a process of emancipation.
"All art is political? Art, aesthetics and aestheticism. Is it possible to produce art outside the social conflicts of our people? Art in the pedagogical processes What is the place of art in our construction as critical and free? Art, "a political-pedagogical tool?
Between Social Movements and the Academy: The Role of Intellectuals in Social Change.
- participate: Omar Acha, Maristella Svampa, Miguel Mazzeo
What should be the relationship between intellectuals and the left fighting for radical transformation of society, has been a discussion has gone through very history of social struggles, and that our country was an important development in the early `60 and` 70 in the figure of the committed intellectual. " We believe that this debate should be updated, since the development of new emancipatory practices in Argentina and throughout Ouramérica, seeking to put into question the need to develop a new intellectual generation.
A generation that is tied to the old dogmas, but you can dare to be as creative and bold and popular new experiences. In this context it is essential snuggles to reflection about the relationship of tension, contrast and complementarity between the academic career and political activism.
believe central to the debate about the need for the generation of intellectuals closely with social movements, to build their theories from the praxis of classes subaltern, contributing to the creation of a counter-culture in our continent.
Hacia una nueva hora latinoamericana, Perspectiva y Desafios desde los Movimientos Sociales
Panel con Movimientos sociales:
Venezuela: Movimiento Revolucionario 28 de marzo - Mexico: Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional - Brasil: Movimiento de Trabajadores Sin Tierra (MST) - Honduras: Tendencia Revolucionaria - Colombia: Red de Hermandad and Solidarity - Argentina: Dario Santillan Popular Front
Latin America lives, rather than a time of change, a real change in time. After the heavy fighting against neoliberalism, which crossed the continent during the late 90s, with strong leadership of popular movements in our country reached its peak on December 20, 2001, today at least three countries (Venezuela , Bolivia, Ecuador) are steps toward an alternative model society. While the rest of the continent, our country included, is being waged a fierce fight between advocates of brutal capitalism and predatory nature, and who see in the XXI Century Socialism a separate project, which dignify human life and advocates urgent preservation of Mother Earth.
The creation of an emancipatory pedagogy involves a thorough criticism of the colonization of knowledge, Eurocentric and ethnocentric characteristics of Latin American educational institutions. Social movements have been carrying out various transformations on our continent are a rich source of new educational experiences that recover the native, popular knowledge and creative people as subject of a new education. We believe essential to frame all discussions of the Forum in the struggles of social movements are taking place across the continent, because we are deeply convinced that all the necessary changes in our education, will be featuring the people "from below" or not be possible.
University + VAT: the interference of the Education Act Superior and corporatization of knowledge
- participate: Atilio Boron Horacio Etchichury, other (tbc)
In recent times, throughout Ouramérica, the system education as a whole has been subjected to logic governed by the quality and efficiency standards imposed by international standards and proper design of commercial and deprivation of education and knowledge.
In our country, the Higher Education Act is the standard that ensured that the University and throughout higher education are reduced to the interests of neoliberalism: legitimizing the running of state as guarantor of the right of everyone to access to higher education, promoting fiscal drowning situations, from promoting funding from private; and demonstrating the possibility to each academic unit to set tariffs, restrictions on entry, stay and departure of the students. The LES, with the most disastrous education policies are perpetuating a view that understands that knowledge is not only commodified, but also fragmented and hyper-specialized in terms of market interest.
In this regard, and to the emerging debates on the Higher Education Act that are now on the agenda, it is imperative that we continue to deepen the discussion about education we have and the education want, from a collective perspective that bets on the generation of knowledge with a critical and popular support.
The power of communication: The media as opinion formers.
- participate: Modesto Guerrero, Indymedia (Córdoba), Sergio Tagle, other (tbc)
The media have always been an important tool in thinking that there are ways to convey thoughts and socially different world views.
Today in the world in general and throughout Latin America in particular, the vast majority of the media have become big business monopolies, and key players for the construction of hegemony involves the reproduction of social domination. They therefore sought on the one hand to promote the standards and values \u200b\u200bin place, and on the other block the emergence and spread of those who bring a different view of reality built from below. Meanwhile, grow and reproduce multiple experiences of alternative media, community and popular show that there is another way to communicate and understand social reality.
What role do the media in our training? How does the "common sense" not promoted the existence of a diversity of voices? What role do the media (both mainstream and alternative) in the revolutionary process? What are the prospects and challenges brings the new law on audiovisual media services?
Some workshops:
What we mean by "University Extension"?
- participate: Interns UBA and organizations of MNCI UNLP - Productive Advisory Workshop - Extension of Uruguay (To be confirmed) - Sarna Chau - University Program in Jail (PUC) - FPDS Area of \u200b\u200bEducation - AVC (area with the Community Link - Faculty of Languages-UNC)
All Colleges and Universities in the country have a Secretary of "University Extension." This means that there is a part of the university that serves as a "spread" to the rest of society to provide knowledge and services produced there. In fact, the word "extension" implies that it is only the University who addresses society, without receiving anything from it. This idea is part of a whole conception of the knowledge produced in universities, whereby students and teachers could learn nothing of society to apply what they have learned it inside.
Is that true? Is it possible that contact with other actors of society we are carriers only we know? Did not we learn anything from them? Is it desirable to "extend" to them or should seek dialogue with their knowledge? "Only we produce knowledge in that trade, or build together? Is it desirable to call "extension" to the relationship between the university and society? What other term could be used to replace and that practice would in that case?
Transforming consciousness: Educational experiences in Latin American Social Movements.
- Coordinates: John Whare - Scarves in default - Movement of Landless Workers (MST from Brazil) - I if I can (Cordoba)
The state and private educational institutions play a basic role in our society to seek to build subject docile but at the same time working to build effective social relationships. Faced with this situation, the social movements throughout Latin America have managed to create educational experiences that transcend the logic that are characteristic of hegemonic educational system. Thus, "The Pedagogy of the Oppressed" continues to fester in the organizations fighting for social change in our continent. They, and the training are on the horizon that subjects know their historical reality in order to transform. Multiple stresses are developed to walk the path of popular education.
What experiences of popular education in Latin America know? What are their characteristics? How do they differ from state institutions? What is their relationship with the States? Do they actually strengthen the struggles that undertake social organizations in which they are framed? How to face the stresses that come with popular education processes?
The Open Veins of Latin America: Looting Natural Assets and popular resistance to extractive model.
The history of Latin American peoples is indelible mark the plundering of their natural assets. So much so that today, under new forms, degradation product remains in force in the fullness of agro-extractive model (soy, mining, etc.)..
Nature then appears as a contested terrain, and various learning processes conceive of different ways. At the University is in many cases understood as a commodity, while in the educational experiences of social movements that resist the looting, it is intended as an intrinsic part of human life and subject of rights.
What experiences looting popular resistance arising in the current context? How to understand the nature of the state universities? What counter-hegemonic experiences in the field of education?
Alternative Communication: History, experiences and tasks in the current contect
- Coordinates: South Radio - Prensa de Frente
Alternative communication has been assigned an important role in the construction of a new hegemony but how do you define the alternativity in communication? What is the context of its emergence, its history and its task in the current context? Is it contradictory to bet on his own model of massive and professionalism?
twisted Rights. Human rights and the criminalization of poverty.
- Coordinates: Vanesa Orie - Collective of Popular Education in jails - Esteban Rodriguez (tbc) - Meeting of Organizations (CBA)
Talking about human rights today, we require a comprehensive approach, seeking a vision beyond the cut to come to obscure the daily and systematic violation of basic rights people: access to health, education, food, decent housing, to decide on our bodies ... So, first of all need to put in discussion the RIGHT FROM.
Our democracy displays daily its crudest limitations and contradictions and can not guarantee that the people "educated", "heal" and "feed", there are many crimes that demonstrate the impunity with which the repressive acts of state. If the police only existed to "ensure the integrity of citizens," and the only role of the armed forces was to "protect the nation from external attack": How to explain the deaths in prisons, deaths by trigger-happy, the repression of street protests, the fallen from 19 and 20 December and Pueyrredón Bridge? How to explain the disappearance of Lopez and Luciano Crease? Therefore there is a lame leg in this reality that "we managed to win." Hence the need for this debate.
work unless I kill, and kill me if I work. On trade union organization and labor precariousness in education.
The crisis over the 2009 affected our country, showed, once again, the variable of adjustment for the above are always working people.
In this context of crisis came to light the limitations of trade unions circumscribed to mere corporate economic claims. In return, and workers launched discussions on how to understand the union, not only to meet the labor struggles, but also build organizational forms problematize working conditions.
It is thus crucial strengthen the tools of struggle and workers in education, tools of struggle and organization from below and between equals, who bet on continuing to build a basic autonomous trade unionism, which encourages the whole toiling people.
During the First National Forum Education for Social Change were interesting discussions we decided to pour into a publication. During the Forum, all the one I want to be able to purchase the book that contains the transcribing of almost all panels made during the First Forum held in La Plata.
his impression was made by the Editorial Collective.
Groups that face the organization of the II National Forum on Education for Social Change belong to different universities in the country, where we will travel in buses that will, mostly, on Thursday night 03/05, for arrive on Friday morning at Cordoba.
To date, we have confirmed buses that leave from:
· Universidad Nacional de La Plata
· Universidad Nacional de Rosario
· National University of Buenos Aires
If you're in some of these universities (or around) and you want to travel, you can send an email with your details educacionparaelcambiosocial @ yahoo.com.ar Login to join. If not, send the same to see if we can contact you with other learners Students who are planning to travel from where you are. All groups are seeking ways, through financing activities and / or through agencies, travel costs avaratar. Costs are defined by Regional, and which vary according to distance and funding capacity.
The Forum will end on Sunday before 17hs, for the Regional not have to return so late.
Like last year, who do not want to spend on accommodation can sleep at Colegio Manuel Belgrano. The same will be assigned an entire floor of the same where you can sleep. Regional to be divided by class, for comfort and safety. All you need bring is a sleeping bag and insulation (note that in June in Cordoba is very cold).
The school has showers with hot water to be enabled at different times.
The Second Forum is Academic Endorsement ...
* Faculty of Languages \u200b\u200b- UNC
* Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities - UNC
* Faculty of Agricultural Sciences - UNC
* Faculty of Social Sciences - UBA
* Faculty of Arts - UBA