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Paulo Freire Institute Spain is, actually, an articulation disposal of organizations, entities and people that are both linked to social-political and cultural intervention in the wide field of Education and Adults formation and linked to movements and struggles against social exclusion existed in Spain. Also PFI Spain seeks a convergence between this part and the public institutions, such as universities and other governmental entities. Professors from Universidad de Sevilha, Universidad de Girona, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universitat de Valencia, Universitat Popular Alternativa, Universitat de les Illes Balears, as well as intellectuals and researchers related to other institutions are part of PFI.
The Resource Center and Continued Education of Valencia State, in Spain, known as CREC, is a unit of management, direct action, coordination of interventions, assistance to cities, such as documentation, resources and investigation on teachers’ training. The main goal of this Center is to articulate a territorial model of intervention and initiate or consolidate integral processes of adults’ training from different actuation area, according approved law in Valencia.
CREC, besides to perform several training actions in all institutes and associated citites and to be linked in several ways to discussions on public policies of education, also promotes groups of study and work, seminars, publication on FPA (Formació de Persones Adultes).
It is precisely the dimension of publications in CREC that we would like to emphasize in this news. The institution manages to gather 06 different lines of acting in its editorial menu: a series called Quaderns d’Educació Contínua (a kind of scientific magazine that already got 28 editions – the latest, including, are available for download); there is a collection entitled Omega, which subtitle is “praxis and theory of continued education”, with titles of Francisco Gutiérrez, Moacir Gadotti, Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, Luiza Cortesão among others; there is another collection, entitled Estudis, with works more concerned with an educational practice, that’s why accounts with manuals and works of post-graduation researchers.
Within the dimensions of publications, one of the 06 collections deserves now an emphasis, the “Paulo Freire Library”. We have two news of two launches in 2013 regarding this collection. The first one is an edition from Valencia of the classic “Fear and Boldness”, that remained Por i Gosadia – la quotidianitat del professor. “Fear and Boldness – the professors’ daily” is on its 13th edition by the publisher Paz e Terra, in Brazil, and was launched primarily in 1987. The book approaches issues such as “What is liberating education?”. “How do professors transform themselves in liberating educators?”, “How do the professors begin to transform themselves and the students?”, “In what measure the education is related to the political transformation?”. The dialogue between Paulo Freire and Ira Shor shows that is possible to develop and apply a transforming pedagogical strategy from the democratization of teaching space and from constant student motivation to reflection. This from two distinct experiences. The edition from Valencia is a partnership between Paulo Freire Institute Spain and CREC, translated by Neus Berenguer Revert and with presenting text of Gloria Diaz, from University of Barcelona, and foreword of Ana Maria Saul (from Pontifícia Universidade Católica – São Paulo).
Only for information, Fear and Boldness was presented fully in context of “Projeto Memória e Presença” (Memory Section), among the measures of democratization of access to disables (http://acervo.paulofreire.org/xmlui/handle/7891/2958). Others titles of Paulo Freire were launched by CREC long before this, such as Pedagogy of Autonomous, Letters to Guinea Bissau, Pedagogy of Hope, Pedagogy of Oppressed, among others.
The second launch of CREC in 2013 also belongs to Paulo Freire Library Collection and entitled Aprenent amb persones adultes – una introducció crítica i pedagògica (in English, Learning with Adults – a critical pedagogical introduction, of Leona English and Peter Mayo. The translation is from Xavier Montero Horche and the edition is also a partnership of PFI Spain with CREC. This book was wrote in a time that the adults education field was (even that still is today) under attack of several forces, both capitalist and neoconservatives. Instead of collapse to this pressure, the hope of the work is that, in a long term, the goals related to Lifelong Education can and be held side by side, along with the professional and vocational education.
The foreword is from Dr. Carlos Alberto Torres (Professor at University of California and Director of Paulo Freire Institute of Los Angeles). The book offers decidedly critical and international perspectives on several aspects of adults’ education, especially on the State, Citizenship and Neoliberals Politics’ relations. Critical regarding contents and methods, between a context of resources decrease and inequality increase, this work of English and Mayo provides an incisive view and necessary to adults’ education, in a way to highlight not only its historic and philosophic roots, but also its great importance to democracy practice. They challenge current hegemonic supposes and offer a constructive alternative based on principle of work with students and not only for them. The books may be purchased on internet, at CREC’s website (http://www.crec.info/#/content-02-03). When you click in any cover, you are taken to fulfill a form that already comes with prices in Euro of the works of all collections of the Center.
Note
It is already available the first number of the virtual periodic Rizoma Freireano of year 2013. The theme of the edition nº 14 is Popular Education and Social Creativity. The PFI Spain makes available two editions by year of this periodic and, according to the instructions that are on the website, new articles must be sent until 150 days before the date when the edition is published. For further details on how to send articles and to access this and previous editions of the periodic, visit: http://rizoma-freireano.org/index.php/n-14-sumario-index.
For further information on Paulo Freire Institute of Spain, visit: http://www.institutpaulofreire.org/#/Intro .