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The only way that somebody has to apply, in its context, some of propositions that I made is exactly remake me, that means, not to follow me.
To follow me, the fundamental is not follow me.
(Paulo Freire, For a Pedagogy of Question, p.41)
The first edition of UniFreire Bulletin is ready and, from now on, available to all international freirean community, launching a new period for the militancy for sake of articulation of individuals and their productions. After a first step that presented the idea and that what would be an Issue 0 of UniFreire Bulletin at the Forum of Los Angeles. There was a second moment that several emails circulated by the community to deepen a little bit more the proposal, the intention, and to call the institutions to participate, inciting themselves to evaluate the aesthetics, evaluate the Bulletin sections and, above all, send us subsides for that we could portray the best possible of realities, including geographically speaking, but also to be able to show the different works from several institutions with the most respect and fidelity. And here there is a panoramic photo of most latest activities held throughout the first semester of 2013 by worldwide groups yet and for good bonded to Paulo Freire. What we wish from now on is to know and share all the next semesters of these and other groups.
Taking the opportunity of 02 May, Death Anniversary of Paulo Freire, and 02 April, Fifieth of Angicos, UniFreire’s team putted on these celebrations as “front page”, a symbolic emphasis, and researched the main Paulo Freire Insitutes, Chairs and other institutions that are linked with freirean praxis aiming to discovery what they were doing, how they were doing and what they would like to do next. Some of these institutions were who made contact with UniFreire, opening their calendars and theirs wills to us.
This search resulted in an edition more than multifaceted, beneficially long and, of course, very happy, showy and substantially.
Among the Highlights of the issue, there is the article The Fifieth of Anficos’ Experience. In it, you may find all that already happen in the core of Angicos’ city from last year to here: new publications that are coming, events and people and institutions that they are gathering, what is main in the celebrations’ repercussion from those who were there and those who already wrote and studied about the experience and, specialy, what 50 years of Angicos still promise to represent for the illiteracy in Brazil.
The literacy of youth and adults is not a discussion-highlight only in the news on Angicos. There are another two News in this edition of UniFreire Bulletin that it is the propellant theme: The “Associação Angola para Educação de Adultos e o APLICA – Alfabetização participativa libertadora instrumentada por comunidades atuantes” (in English: Agolan Association for Adults Education and Liberating Instrumented Participative Literacy by Active Communities) is one of them and, by the reading, depending to personal repertoire, each reader will highlights a characteristic that approcheas a lot Angicos to Angola that today starts to persue a political liberation by the appropriation of reading and writing, of liguistic code and of the world. The other is the MOVA-Brasil Project, wrote by Francisca Pini (pedagogical director of IPF Brazil) and Alessandra Rodrigues (coordinate of the Adults Education area of IPF Brazil), that defines the project, that remits to a memorable initiative of Paulo Freire’s life in Brazilian’s public politic, with some of his numbers and contributions to literacy of youth and adults in the country and also a little bit of what is going on now and will be happening in 2013 in the several poles, distributed in Brazilian’s territory.
In the Memory section we have more lireteacy, but under other view: Professor gives away to IPF Brazil materials of one of the first experiences of Paulo Freire after Angicos. In this text, you will be able to understand how is yielding fruits the project “Paulo Freire Memória e Presença”, of Instituto Paulo Freire Brazil, and how are the slides from Santa Catarina state that may be one of the first works of Freire after Angicos’ experience.
The Paulo Freire Institute of Portugal is, in a certain way, other unexpected highlight of this edition, because was necessary to portray it in two articles of Resealesed section: PFIP collaborates to Intensive Program Erasmus in Bristol and launches book to teachers – in which is described an integral training program to youth that PFIP is one of the interested, and a new publication of Institute’s team, focused to teachers and discussing autonomy; Paulo Freire Institute of Portugal, University of Porto and “Raízes” Project – Guimarães 2012 – a dense material that presents a prospective retrospective: the five publications linked to Guimarães European Capital of Culture’s project are presented chronologically to the public. In this same section is the matter PFI Spain and resources and continued education center of Valencia lanch two books in 2013 by the collection “Biblioteca Paulo Freire”. The year of 2013, therefore, already starts as a fertile year to community writing.
Even more fertile to the freirean community in 2013, the year has a extraordinaire number of congress, symposiums, meetings and other forms of meeting among university professors, intellectuals, professors of basic education of entire world held during this first semester and that will happen yet. Regarding this collective movements held by and for the institutions of this community, you can confer the following articles in section Freirean Meetings:
International Conference dialogues on 40 years of contextual approach at the Freie Universität Berlin (in English, Free University of Berlin)
Freire Institute, from University of Central Lancashire, Convoks to the 11th International Conference on Education and Systems of Information, Technologies and Applocations.
Californian Association of Freirean Educators promotes CAFE Conference 2013 and CAFE Workshop for Educators
One day dedicated to Augusto Boal and Paulo Freire – Dare la Parola al Mondo – Give voice to the World
Besides updates of the workd developed in Portugal, Brazil and Angola, Edition 01 brings more two subjects, of informative nature, one about Mexico and another about Italy. In the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, in Mexico, gets ready the program of retaking Paulo Freire Chair , we have a text that portray a constant and, therefore, a considerable part of freirean community – we have received more news of studies groups about Paulo Freire hosted and fomented by universities, almost always private, but also public. We had new in Brazil and in other countries such as USA, in this case, the Pacifica Graduate; as well as the Caribean Chair from edition zero of this Bulletin. This is instantly proven with a second important news of this edition that refers to the raises of a chair: New Center and new event in “Cátedra do Oprimido”. This subject tells a story of a public university of Brazilian’s south that had representatives in the Forum of Los Angeles and that officially linked themselves, in that occasion, to Cátedra do Oprimido and is already developing publication and event. To know lastest data of these groups, visit: http://www.paulofreire.org/unifreire/mapeamento-comunidade-freiriana.
Italy was one of the countries that contributed a lot to the community of freirean legacy. The country is on 03 matters in this edition. Two of them are direct actions of Paulo Freire Institute and the first is an action that promotes an interlocution on youth, cohabiting the matter with an action for those who are not that young: PFI Italy calls Frei Betto to Talk about Youth and promotes Culture Circle on personal and collective Libertation.
The subject on IPF Brazil is called UniFreire in2013: Who, How and Why? And the article does a panoramic fly on the latest activities of the institution maintained by PFI that was born in the Bologna Forum, in 2000, and that, before also being an institution, is an apocryphal movement for the democratization and multiplicity of knowledge. The movements of UniFreire in the articulation dimension – how this Bulletin itself, the update of freirean community’s mapping and the work with scan and availability of significant part of materials of all Paulo Freire Forum’s edition, as well as the unpublished incursion and explicitly positive of the institution in the higher education, as a post-graduation course, lato sensu, are detailed in an objective way, but stimulating, in order to share with the whole community the authorship and new discoveries, as well as the continuity of these actions.
The Community in Highlight section is, purposely, a partnership with the Freirean Meetings section and a mathematical combination. As many different countries already were contemplated by the edition, as well as both most popular dimension of freirean community, Chair and Paulo Freire Institute, we did a tribute to Augusto Boal, inviting to a self-portrait the “O Centro de Teatro do Oprimido – CTO” (in English, Center of Theater of the Oppressed – CTO), in Rio de Janeiro, that is not a Chair, neither an Institute. Because it is a year that will celebrate and stimulate the relationship between these Brazilian’s thinkers, Freire and Boal, and because, coincidentally, we had established contact with CTO once they heard about the UniFreire Bulletin in the Paulo Freire Forum, from Peru. The subject is called “O Centro de Teatro do Oprimido – CTO”, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and was kindly writing and sent by the own CTO.
And, talking about events and tributes, UniFreire Bulletin started by the International Meeting of the Paulo Freire Forum and will end this edition greeting the Forum. In Paulo Freire Institute of Italy launches a journal on the Forum of Los Angeles we retake the 8th Forum, that was the great theme of our edition zero, under the view of testimonials and these testimonials are already of the group which will held our next big forum.
We wish to all a great reading. And, hopefully, will be the same pleasure to all this travel around the freirean world that was for all of us here.
Anderson Fernandes de Alencar
UniFreire Executive Secretariat
Collaborated to this edition
German (Jürgen Zimmer)
Angola (Vítor Barbosa, Fátima Ramos)
Brazil (Adriana Loss, Alessandra Rodrigues dos Santos, Alessandro Conceição, Anderson Fernandes de Alencar, Flavio Sanctum, Francisca Pini, Geo Britto, Guilherme Barbeiro, Ísis Brandão, Janaína Abreu, José Eustáquio Romão, José Moraes Neto, Juliana Avona, Letícia Biaggioni, Luis de Marchi, Moacir Gadotti, Paulo Roberto Padilha)
Spain (Pep Aparicio Guadas)
USA (Carlos Alberto Torres, Greg Mislaszek, Jason Dorio)
England (Penny Jane Burke, John Lockhart)
Italy (Piergiorgio Reggio, Silvia Maria Manfredi)
Mexico (Leopoldo Ferreiro Morlet)
Portugal (Luiza Cortesão)