POPULAR EDUCATION
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THE HEAD THINKS WHERE THE FEET TREAD
In May 2018, groups from the popular education cluster met in Bogotá to discuss critical popular education references, the challenges of dismantling institutions, the current social context, and methodological concepts. These conversations resulted in mapping diagrams designed by colleagues from Iconoclasistas.
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DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN PAULO FREIRE’S METHOD OF CRITICAL LITERACY AND ANDEAN WORLD-VIEWS
The work itinerary that we propose in this learning unit consists of materials, texts, images and personal anecdotes that Sofía Olascoaga[1] and I gathered on a visit we made to WAMAN WASI, a center of cultural affirmation and recovery of Amazonian Andean peasant technologies in Lamas Peru. The questions we asked at the time were: How does…
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HOW TO WORK WITH ARCHIVES THAT ARE “NOT THERE”? ENGAGING MEDU ART ENSEMBLE IN THE NOW
This Learning Unit is concerned with the politics of archival access or how to work with archives that are ‘not there’. The central story of the Johannesburg Working Group (JWG) is the Medu Art Ensemble (Medu), a collective of informal members; most of them exiled artists from South Africa, working in Botswana circa 1979-1985.
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REENGAGING FREIRE: DECODING AND RE-CODING FREIRE’S “GENERATIVE IMAGES” AND CRITICAL ARTS EDUCATION
How do we engage students or participants of a learning programme in a gallery in discussing an artwork in a critical and potentially emancipatory manner? This Learning Unit proposes to reflect on methods for the critical reading of images by engaging with pictures for learning situations that were created following Paulo Freire’s approach of “generative…
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REFLECTION OF PRACTICES THROUGH DIALOGUE WITH IMAGES AND WRITTEN CONVERSATIONS – ACTIVATION OF ARCHIVES OF POPULAR EDUCATION
This Learning Unit shows, with the help of a video we as Bogota Working Group produced, a possibility of how to put central concepts of Paulo Freire into a new and present context.
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SPINNING TALES
Spinning tales was born within the framework of LaFundició’s research project for the Donosti-Ma-drid-Barcelona node of the Popular Education cluster of the international network Another Roadmap School, as an experimental pedagogical resource that explains the characteristics and development of 0-6 Gunea* as a popular education project, and at the same time puts into practice some…