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Universitas Paulo Freire (UniFreire) is constituted by a network of people and institutions of several countries which have in the freirean thought theoretical referential for theirs conceptions and practices, whether Chairs, Paulo Freire Institutes, groups, centers of research, higher education institutes or even entities linked to artistic manifestations or to communities projects of inclusion and popular education. To see the updated survey regarding these institutions, please, access:
ttp://www.paulofreire.org/unifreire/mapeamento-comunidade-freiriana.
UniFreire is organized as a space of production and promotion of knowledge. In this sense, the proposal of this Bulletin is to socialize actions developed by both national and international freirean community, achieve reflections on the same and contribute to empower them.
In a quick “tour” through the sections’ content, we could highlight:
Through the matters “VIII Paulo Freire International Colloquium – Education as the practice of freedom: Knowledge, experiences and (re)reading in Paulo Freire”, “15 years of the forum of Paulo Freire readings in the south of Brazil brings the education in the cities as theme”, “What is that Paraíba has?”, “Paulo Freire Symposium – The actualy of Paulo Freire face the challenges of 21st Century”, “II Paulo Freire Colloquium – Freirean Dialogues”, “Paulo Freire International Seminar – Buenos Aires – 2013 ‘Popular Education, Paulo Freire and the Conteporary Pedagogical Thought’” and “V Interamerican Colloquium about Education in Human Rights and IV Think Human Rights – ‘Latin America: Common Borders and Horizons in HRE’” we make available to the reader a panorama with the main events which traveled through Brazil taking Paulo Freire’s work as articulating axis. Despite several perspectives of approach of freirean legacy, it is possible to note that specific books of Freire were adopted by at least three of these events, which gave a chance for those who could or may participate in them, of be able to read Freire in a collaborative way.
Keeping us in the formative actions, this issue brings also two courses, one in USA, “Los Angeles and the Summer Course”, and another one in Argentina, “V Interdisciplinary Course for Formation of Formers in Rosario – Voices and Places”
We have also two registration groups, with two news in each. Quite different regarding the structure of the rest of the Bulletin. In the first group, the news “sew” three actions quite different between them which were held in lands of English language: “Freire in United Kingdom” (which articulates the sub-articles “Connecting Global Issues and Local Experiences”, “Perspectives for a Social and Solidarity Economy” and “Workshop on Paulo Freire – ‘The importance of Paulo Freire to us today’”) and “Three notes on Paulo Freire Institute – UCLA” (which makes the same exercise of approximate the texts “Research Apprentice Course”, “Paulo Freire Documentary Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses: Political Clarity, Courage and Humility” and “Summer Lecture”).
The second group of news involves a common concept, not a common procedure, as occurred in the previous group. Two places quite different treated about the empowerment. One of them is Angola, making public another great work with adults, “The Empowerment of Women of Angola”, and the other is a scientific event linked to a celebration, in Illinois, USA, “Empowering the students with Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope”.
In the Launch section we have an old friend, closing a long and very significant cycle: “The whole world is everyones” which is the name of the latest book launched by Paulo Freire Institute of Portugal in the scope of Guimarães Project – European Capital of Culture. We also have the pleasure of read another time about the theatral happening: “From ‘Militantes do Ideal’ trilogy, spectacle based on Paulo Freire gets award in Brazil” which brings a wide matter regarding the spectacle “Marches”, that agglutinated a research on Freire in an aesthetic search, which translate itself in the costume, scenario, sonoplastia and, above all, in the dramaturgy.
Our two special sections seal the issue with an identity contribution: the Memory section makes an incursion through documents newly available by Paulo Freire Institute of Brazil which refer to the period in which Paulo Freire was chased by the dictatorship in the country: “Prison and amnesty of Paulo Freire: revealing documents”.
In the Community Highlighted section we did a kind of Paulo Freire Forum’s double: Paulo Freire Institute, Los Angeles, who hosted the latest edition of the International Meeting, was an entity portrayed with the first issue of the Bulletin. Now, the matter of this section is entitled “Italia, ti voglio bene!”, in honor to the host-country of the next International Meeting of Paulo Freire Forum, which will be held on September of 2014.
But this second issue of UniFreire Bulletin brings, also, news related to the first experience.
The matters gained more illustrations and, gradually, have gained more references to Paulo Freire, in the form of epigraphs and quotations. Besides, we gained one more section, promised since the time in which the international freirean community received a letter that presented the UniFreire Bulletin: a Papers section. In this section, the reader of the Bulletin will be able, whenever it wants, access articles of researchers of several countries, finding important concepts and references to the freirean thought under different perspectives.
In case of any interest in publication articles at UniFreire Bulletin, please, get in touch with secretaria@unifreire.org.
Sheila Ceccon
Coordinator of UNIFREIRE
Angela Antunes
Paulo Roberto Padilha
Pedagogical Directors of Paulo Freire Institute – Brazil
Contributed to this issue:
Angola: Vitor Barbosa – AAEA (Angolan Association for Adult Education)
Argentina: Lilians López – IPF Rosario (Paulo Freire Investigation Institute of Rosario)
Brazil: Anderson Fernandes de Alencar, Ângela Antunes, Cintia Sales, Fernando Martins Pereira da Silva, Francisca Pini, Guilherme Barbeiro, Ísis Brandão, Janaína Abreu, José Moraes Neto, Juliana Avona, Letícia Biaggioni, Luis de Marchi, Moacir Gadotti, Paulo Roberto Padilha, Rodrigo Gomes, Sheila Ceccon – IPF Brasil (Paulo Freire Institute of Brazil); GEPeeeS-UFPB (Group of Studies and Research on Education, Ethnicities and Solidarity Economy – UFPB/ Federal University of Paraíba)
Portugal: Luíza Cortesão – IPF Portugal (Paulo Freire Institute of Portugal)