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The International Seminar “Popular Education, Paulo Freire and the Contemporary Pedagogical Thought” before it even happens was already very significant: it was about the birthday of 30 years of the return of the rule of law after civil-military dictatorship, which began in 1976 in Argentina; also 40 years of CREAR (Campaña de Reactivación de la Educación de Adultos para la Reconstrucción), program which in 1973 was focused to promote and accomplish the literacy of adults in different parts of this same country; it was about also the Angicos’ 50 years, the city of Brazilian Northeast where Paulo Freire applied for the first time his method of literacy.
To celebrate and promote these marks, admittedly Freirean imprint, on August 15, 16 and 17 of 2013,at Instituto Superior del Profesorado Sagrado Corazón, Almagro, in Buenos Aires, the Seminar developed itself in 3 axes to guide the presentations and reflections: dialogicity, awareness and political scope of education. The meeting had moments of academic exhibitions, circles of popular culture, presentation of educational and social experiences, tributes to personalities linked to recuperation of histories of the literacy educators of Latin America and Caribbean. The main intentions of the event were recover Paulo Freire thought, of Angicos (1963) until our present; create memory of the CREAR Program, developed in Argentina; reconstruct the marks of several processes of popular education in which the thought of Paulo Freire left an indelible and inescapable mark; recreate the Circles of Culture founded by Paulo Freire as spaces for the dialogue, political debate and of awareness to transform the reality; share social and educative histories and experiences with other educators, academics and activists of Latin America. The seminar was intended and received educators, academics, universities, students, social militants who recreate Paulo Freire in their daily and professional practices, as well as general public.
Among the special guests, there was the presence of educators from Argentina and also from countries such as Brazil and Cuba. Among them Cayetano de Lella (CREAR Argentina Program), Francisco Genezio de Lima Mesquita (Popular educator and founder of Paulo Freire Popular Library Educador, Campinas, Brazil), María Sirley dos Santos (Popular educator, pedagogue, president of AELAC Brazil – Association of Educators of Latin American and Caribbean, who was director of education of São Paulo state during Lula’s government, worked together with Paulo Freire and is authoress of the work Pedagogy of the Diversity); Dr. Mariano Isla Guerra (Dr. in Social Sciences, vice-president of Association of Pedagogues of Cuba, responsible by the project Transform to Educate, capacitor at the Centro de Superación para la Cultura del Ministerio de Cultura de Cuba, organizer of the Encuentro Internacional Presencia de Paulo Freire en Cienfuegos); Dr. Regina Agramonte Rosell (Dr. in Pedagogical Sciences and head of International Relations of CITMA – Instituto de Filosofía del Ministerio de Ciencia Tecnología y Medio Ambiente, teacher of Pedagogy at Universidad de las Artes de Cuba).
The organizers of the Symposium are OEI – Instituto Superior del Profesorado Sagrado Corazón, Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la educación, Red Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Educación Popular de las Religiosas del Sagrado Corazón, Asociación de Educadores de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (AELAC – branch San Martín), PAEByT – Programa de alfabetización, educación, educación básica y trabajo, Graciela Bustillos Cooperative, Centro de Educación Popular Felicitas Mastropaolo.
SUMMARY OF THE PROGRAM
08/15/2013
16h – Reception
18h – Opening Act
18.30h – Main table: Dr. Mariano Isla Guerra, Dr. Regina Agramonte Rosell (CUBA), Maria Sirley Dos Santos, Francisco Genezio de Lima Mesquita (BRAZIL)
20h – Velada de cierre: MIX of Argentin, Latin-american and Caribbean Dances – Exhibitions of Photos
08/16/2013
8.30h – Reception
9h – Starting Activity
10 – 11.15h. - Projection of Videos: systematization of experiences accomplished by participant institutions related to the three axes of the meeting
11.30 – 12.30h – “Musical Appetizer”
14.15hs - “Actividades para no dormir la siesta”
14.30 – 16.30h – Circles of culture
- Integrated synthesis by axis
17 – 18.30h – Plenary – Coordination of MARIA SIRLEY DOS SANTOS (Brazil)
18.30 – 19.30h – La Combinada – Spontaneous Theater
Plastic Artist Patricia Aballay donated this aquarelle for the Seminar, which was raffled
08/17/2013
9.15 – 9.30h – Colectivo no tan distintas, Lectura Coral
9.30 – 11h – Posters
11.00 – 11.20h – Animated Intermezzo
11.20 – 12.30h – Conference: Dr. Regina Agramonte Rossell – Educación en el signo XXI – Derecho o dilema.
12.15 – 12.45hs – Debate
14.15h – “Entonando la tarde”
14.30 – 15.15h – Conference: Dr. Mariano Isla Guerra: Transformar para educar. Pista para articular escuela, família y comunidad
15.15 – 15.45h – Debate
17.00 – 18.00h – Conclusions, Final Document: Commitments and Challenges.
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