EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN LATIN AMERICA
A two day workshop organised in collaboration between
MERD (Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues)
CSSGJ (Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham)
Centre for Education for Social Justice (Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln)
To be held at the
University of Nottingham
1st - 2nd July 2011
The role of education is increasingly important in the construction of new forms of anti-capitalist politics in Latin America. This is evidenced by the centrality of popular education and other forms of struggle influenced by radical education philosophy and pedagogy, and by social movements in their construction of new forms of participatory politics and mass intellectuality. It is also evidenced in the creation of formal and informal educational programmes, practices and projects that develop varieties of critical pedagogy and popular education with both organised and non-organised marginalised and excluded communities.
Particularly, noticeable in this regard is the centrality of education in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the move towards 21st Century socialism. At the heart of the politicisation of education are the questions of whose knowledge counts in the process of social transformation and political change and if the ways in which such transformative knowledge is created impact upon the struggle to develop worlds beyond capitalism in the 21st century.
This workshop invites papers which develop theoretically grounded empirical analysis about the politicisation of education in the continent.
Key questions to be addressed are:
How is education politicised in contemporary anti-capitalist struggles?
How has neoliberalism closed down as well as opened up terrains of educational struggle?
What differences are there between the role of education in 20th century socialism and 21st century socialism?
How does Marxism shape such practices of radical pedagogy and how do such practices transform Marxism?
How does the focus on popular education in new forms of popular politics influence and reflect the type of politics developed?
What is the role of autonomous education in social movements in the construction of anti-capitalism?
What is the relationship between formal ‘progressive’ educational programmes and the politics of knowledge and education in informal community/social movement settings?
What can we (outside of the region) learn from Chavez’s concept of Venezuela as a ‘giant school’ and other radical pedagogies and educational practices in Latin America?
What is the role of popular educators within formal schooling in these processes?
Selected papers will be published in an edited collection with Palgrave Macmillan in their Marxism and Education Series.
Contact Sara Motta at sara.motta@nottingham.ac.uk and Mike Cole at mike.cole@bishopg.ac.uk if you are interested in helping organise the workshop or would like any further information.
Please submit your paper proposal by March 1st 2011
Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski: http://rikowski.wordpress.com
The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/
Volumizer: http://glennrikowski.blogspot.com
A two day workshop organised in collaboration between
MERD (Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues)
CSSGJ (Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham)
Centre for Education for Social Justice (Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln)
To be held at the
University of Nottingham
1st - 2nd July 2011
The role of education is increasingly important in the construction of new forms of anti-capitalist politics in Latin America. This is evidenced by the centrality of popular education and other forms of struggle influenced by radical education philosophy and pedagogy, and by social movements in their construction of new forms of participatory politics and mass intellectuality. It is also evidenced in the creation of formal and informal educational programmes, practices and projects that develop varieties of critical pedagogy and popular education with both organised and non-organised marginalised and excluded communities.
Particularly, noticeable in this regard is the centrality of education in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the move towards 21st Century socialism. At the heart of the politicisation of education are the questions of whose knowledge counts in the process of social transformation and political change and if the ways in which such transformative knowledge is created impact upon the struggle to develop worlds beyond capitalism in the 21st century.
This workshop invites papers which develop theoretically grounded empirical analysis about the politicisation of education in the continent.
Key questions to be addressed are:
How is education politicised in contemporary anti-capitalist struggles?
How has neoliberalism closed down as well as opened up terrains of educational struggle?
What differences are there between the role of education in 20th century socialism and 21st century socialism?
How does Marxism shape such practices of radical pedagogy and how do such practices transform Marxism?
How does the focus on popular education in new forms of popular politics influence and reflect the type of politics developed?
What is the role of autonomous education in social movements in the construction of anti-capitalism?
What is the relationship between formal ‘progressive’ educational programmes and the politics of knowledge and education in informal community/social movement settings?
What can we (outside of the region) learn from Chavez’s concept of Venezuela as a ‘giant school’ and other radical pedagogies and educational practices in Latin America?
What is the role of popular educators within formal schooling in these processes?
Selected papers will be published in an edited collection with Palgrave Macmillan in their Marxism and Education Series.
Contact Sara Motta at sara.motta@nottingham.ac.uk and Mike Cole at mike.cole@bishopg.ac.uk if you are interested in helping organise the workshop or would like any further information.
Please submit your paper proposal by March 1st 2011
Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski: http://rikowski.wordpress.com
The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/
Volumizer: http://glennrikowski.blogspot.com
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