(videos) Popular Education Social Forum – Meeting on popular education and universities: Experiences and Challenges
The Popular Education Social Forum is the result of the dialogue between FLACSO Brazil, Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra and the Alice Project, UPMS (Popular University of Social Movements), CEAAL, CLACSO and CODESRIA, with the intention of bringing together universities with popular education activities, based on the idea that the democratisation of societies involves, necessarily, the democratisation of knowledge. In no time, many social organisations, movements, universities and governments came together to materialise what was once was just an idea. And so, a broader meeting to discuss popular education in today’s world came about. Keeping in mind that Popular Education, on the one hand, reacts to the elitism of universities, democratising access to knowledge, and, on the other, promotes dialogue between knowledges, and considering Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a central reference, advocating education for liberation and for citizenship, this meeting was intended as an opportunity to challenge the current context of the world economic, political and social crisis in light of the practice of Popular Education (check the forum’s website: http://www.forumeducacaopopular.org/).
Mini-Documentary about meeting:
Talk: The relationship between University and Popular Education – Today’s Historical Moment
With Boaventura de Sousa Santos (CES/UPMS) and comments by Naomar de Almeida Filho (UFSB), Lía Córdoba Garrido (UPP), Cláudia Rose Ribeiro da Silva (Museu da Maré), Jesús Alejandro Vera Jiménez (UAEM)
Meeting on Popular Education and Universities – Opening
Meeting on Popular Education and Universities – Part 1 - Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Centro de Estudos Sociais/Projeto ALICE and Universidade Popular dos Movimentos Sociais)
Meeting on Popular Education and Universities – Part 2 – Comments: Naomar de Almeida Filho (Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia – UFSB)
Meeting on Popular Education and Universities – Part 3 - Comments: Lía Córdoba Garrido (Universidad Popular de los Pueblos – UPP)
Meeting on Popular Education and Universities – Part 4 - Comments: Cláudia Rose Ribeiro da Silva (Museu da Maré)
Meeting on Popular Education and Universities – Part 5 – Comments: Jesús Alejandro Vera Jiménez (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos – UAEM)
Meeting on Popular Education and Universities – Closing – Final Comments: Oscar Jara (Consejo de Educación de Adultos de America Latina) and Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Centro de Estudos Sociais/Projeto ALICE and Universidade Popular dos Movimentos Sociais)
