Paulo Freire Zentrum - Workshop Popular Education Today

Workshop Popular Education Today

Volksbildung leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Förderung von Solidarökonomie und Modellen der Partizipation und damit zu nachhaltiger sozioökonomischer Transformation. In Lateinamerika hat Volksbildung eine lange Tradition und es gibt dazu zahlreiche brasilianische Erfahrungen. Einladung zu einem Workshop am 13. September 2007, Wien.

19.06.2007 | Redaktion

Popular education is a method of empowerment which has a long tradition in Latin America, especially in Brazil. Its understanding of reality is based on the idea of comprehending developments integrally, in a dialogical way of "jointly reading and writing the world" (Paulo Freire). Solidarian economy and participatory politics are social innovations which are expected to lead a way towards a sustainable socio-economic transformation. Both approaches are linked with strong traditions in Brazil: There has been a well-known experiment of participative budgeting in Porte Alegre, and in the Federal State of Rio Grande do Sul, respectively. Participatory Politics is still more a vision than a reality in Brasil, as it is almost anywhere else in the world. Participatory methods and structures, however, have been widely used in Brasil's popular movements. The current president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has established a Federal Secretary of Solidarian Economy within the Ministry of Labor and Employment. Although the importance of learning in the field of solidarian economy and participatory politics is unquestioned, its potential can still be improved.

This workshop aims at exchanging information about a wide range of activities in the field of popular education, bottom-up learning processes and experiments with more egalitarian approaches towards the knowledge economy. The organizers of the seminar intend to bring together researchers, policy makers, and NGO-activists . The seminar is set out to deepen the knowledge of participants in regard to the topics addressed.

Date
September 13th, 2007

Time
08:45 – 17:30

Place
Seminar room, Berggasse 7, 1090 Vienna

Registration
Paulo Freire Zentrum, office@pfz.at
Phone ++43 / 1 317 40 17
Limited number of participants / admission free

Participants
People interested in development education and inter- and transdisciplinary research concerning popular education

Contributors
Len Arthur
Ana Fernandes
Michaela Hauer
Pia Lichtblau
Diana Mac Callum
Andreas Novy
Stijn Oosterlynck
Erika Tiefenbacher
Irene Weinpolter

Program

Morning
08:45 – 09:15 Welcome – Coffee
09:15 – 09:30 Organisation & Presentation of the Workshop
(Andreas Novy, Michaela Hauer)
09:30 – 09:45 Overview of the KEF-sponsored project "Popular Education Today" (Andreas Novy)
09:45 – 10:15 Brazilian experiences with popular education (Pia Lichtblau)
10:15 – 10:45 Knowledge economy and socio-spatial polarisation – the case of Recife (Ana Fernandes)
10:45 – 11:00 Knowledge economy an socio-spatial polarisation – the case of Vienna (Andreas Novy, Michaela Hauer)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30
Comments of external experts

- Stijn Oosterlynck
- Diana Mac Callum
- Len Arthur
- Irene Weinpolter
- Erika Tiefenbacher

12:30 – 13:00 General Discussion

Afternoon

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Group work: "Perspectives for education and training"
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Presentation of group discussion & final discussion

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