Popular education and Latin American social movements: strategy and resistance against neoliberal policies.
Journal Title: International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The impact of neo-liberalism on public education creates new forms of authoritarianism such as the dependence on competitiveness, austerity, precarious forms of employment, the deterioration of social relationships. In many cases, the authoritarianism is hidden behind fictitious forms of “democratic schools”. The neo-liberal educational model presents, in its market-driven paradigm, renewed forms of repression: what we could call in Freirean terms a “culture of silence” (Freire, 1972). How can we break the “culture of silence”? How can we build a critical culture of social relationships?Worldwide social movements, political and academic groups are working to develop a critical culture based on dialogue and actions of resistance against neo-liberalism, creating spaces of teaching and learning that are no longer based on competitive skills, but instead, focused on creative, collective and participatory experiences of popular education. The scope of this article is to investigate the role of dialogue in experiences and policies of resistance, highlighting social movements and groups of popular education that, mainly in Latin America, defend the human right of people to create their own words, images and dreams. With this scope, I present in the article the project of “Permanent Forum of Social Movement, Popular Education and Universities” that we are creating at University of Rio de Janeiro. <br/><br/>
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Paolo Vittoria
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