Political agendas through popular education : Mexico and Spain in the thirties. 'Agendas pol??ticas detr??s de la escolarizaci??n : M??xico y Espa??a en los a??os treinta'

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Fifty Years After Angicos : Paulo Freire, Popular Education and the Struggle for a Better World that is Possible

The main thesis of this paper is that Freire’s original experience in Angicos anticipated a grand design for social transformation of educational systems. As such it brought together two key concepts that formulated the basis of his educational system: popular culture as an counter-hegemonic project and popular education, more particularly what was later called citizen schools or public popular education as keystone of his new educational system. I use the term Paulo Freire System to show that his original attempts were not only to challenge pedagogical the prevailing banking education system that was so pervasive in Brazil and Latin American at the time. In challenging the hegemony of banking education, its narrative, theoretical foundations, epistemology and methodology, Freire and his team sought to create a new system that could replace the old one. They saw banking education not only as obsolete in terms of modernization of systems but also oppressive in gnoseological, epistemological and political terms. In the conclusion of this paper I will discuss the twins obsessions of Freire, already present in the Angicos experience and that will stay with him throughout his life: the relationship between democracy, citizenship and education, and education as a postcolonial ethical act of social transformation. I would like to emphasize therefore that the Paulo Freire system, as conceived in the Angicos experience and its aftermath was a much larger and comprehensive system that originally considered, even by his critics.

Public libraries and popular education,

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Essays upon popular education : containing a particular examination of the schools of Massachusetts, and an outline of an institution for the education of teachers /

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Lectures on popular education delivered to the Edinburgh Association for Procuring Instruction in Useful and Entertaining Science /

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Hints on a system of popular education:

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A discourse on popular education; delivered in the church at Princeton, the evening before the annual commencement of the College of New Jersey September 26, 1826. ...

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Necessity of popular education as a national object; with hints on the treatment of criminals, and observations on homicidal insanity.

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Why critical pedagogy and popular education matter today

Few today doubt that English Higher Education (HE), like the wider world in which it is located, is in crisis. This is, in part, an economic crisis, as the government response to the current recession seems to be that of introducing the kind of neoliberal ‘shock doctrine’ (Klein 2007) or ‘shock therapy’ (Harvey 2005) that previously resulted in swingeing cuts in public services in Southern nations. Our aim in producing this volume is that these contributions help develop a collective response to the seeming limits of these conditions. We view the strength of these contributions in part as providing palpable evidence of how we and our colleagues are acting with critical hope under current conditions so that we might encourage others to work with us to build, together, more progressive formal and informal education systems that address and seek to redress multiple injustices of the world today.

Critical pedagogy/popular education group

Few today doubt that English Higher Education (HE), like the wider world in which it is located, is in crisis. This is, in part, an economic crisis, as the government response to the current recession seems to be that of introducing the kind of neoliberal ‘shock doctrine’ (Klein 2007) or ‘shock therapy’ (Harvey 2005) that previously resulted in swingeing cuts in public services in Southern nations. Our aim in producing this volume is that these contributions help develop a collective response to the seeming limits of these conditions. We view the strength of these contributions in part as providing palpable evidence of how we and our colleagues are acting with critical hope under current conditions so that we might encourage others to work with us to build, together, more progressive formal and informal education systems that address and seek to redress multiple injustices of the world today.

Educação popular: instrumento de fortalecimento da sociedade civil

Objetiva evidenciar a relevâlcia da escola enquanto lugar para o exercício de uma educação popular que se realiza como instrumento de fortalecimento da sociedade civil. Na medida em que o saber transmitido pela escola pode ser verdadeiro e assim eficaz, é que ela, de instrumento da classe dominante, tem a possibilidade de tornar-se um meio para a apropriação de conhecimento por parte dos dominados, o qual leve à consciência da própria dominação. A educação é compreendida aqui como parte do todo da sociedade e nela articulada completamente. A sociedade é ela mesma uma totalidade dinâmica cujo processo de desenvolvimento é uma continua superação-conservação de cada uma de suas etapas. O trabalho parte de uma análise das várias conjunturas politico-econômicas do Brasil, a partir dos anos 30, e das várias propostas pedagógicas que corresponderam a cada periodo, na intenção de explicitar as interações entre ambos. Encerra retomando a análise conjuntural dos anos 80 e identificando o desafio que se coloca para a educação hoje, ou se.ja: como a educação popular enquanto instrumento de fortalecimento da sociedade civil, pode contribuir para o processo de construção de uma ordem democrática dentro da sociedade brasileira.

Recriar a vida... reinventar a pré-escola: (buscando caminhos para a pré-escola popular)

Este trabalho é o relato de uma experiência de Educação Popular em uma pré-escola comunitária de uma favela do Rio de Janeiro. Após uma rápida exposição do contexto em que ocorreu a experiência, são descritos e analisados três aspectos considerados como fundamentais para o desenvolvimento do trabalho: a elaboração coletiva de uma pedagogia pré-escolar referenciada nas condições e na cultura local; a formação das educadoras leigas visando a sua autonomia; o estreitamento das relações entre escola e comunidade, buscando resgatar a unidade entre conhecimento e vida. A partir da prática e da reflexão sobre a prática, da apropriação do conhecimento universal acumulado e da busca de relações democráticas entre os membros da equipe de educadores, foi possível encontrar algumas referências e alguns caminhos para uma pré-escola comprometida com a educação integral das crianças das classes populares.