(Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Opressed)

June 24, 2014 it is going to be held at Teatro Juarez Machado, in Joinville, the VIII “Seminar Freire”. The event, organized in a collective way by teachers and students of Pedagogy, is going to count on the presence of the educator Ângela Antunes, pedagogical director of the Paulo Freire Institute of Brazil.

The seminar aims to provide the entire community in the area of education, a space for academic and professional reflection, encouraging research during the formation of teachers, fostering thinking and intervening scientifically in reality. It aims to strengthen the role of research in academic practice, to disseminate research carried out by professionals INESA, providing a space of “exchanges” between participants.

The previous Freirian seminars had strong repercussions in the region. With the participation of students in courses and Magisterium Regular High School from other schools and courses Undergraduate students from other institutions of higher education, including the neighboring municipalities.

(Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of autonomy)

Turin, Italy

The International Meeting of Paulo Freire Forum reaches its IX edition. The first meeting took place in 1998 and the others have been held at biennial intervals. The proposal for the “meetings” is to build dialogue between everyone who identifies with freirian thoughts, among them, the network of Institutes Paulo Freire (currently rooted on 5 continents), the Unifreire, centers studies and that the chairs make up Freirian network in the world. They consist in important opportunities for dialogue and exchange between people and groups who seek concrete alternatives of education, socio-cultural development and lifestyles that oppose the homogenizing logic of neoliberal globalization.

The next International Meeting of Paulo Freire Forum has beeing organized by Paulo Freire Institute-Italy and is going to happen in Turin from 17 to 20, September. The event was conceived and planned by organizations, groups and individuals working in situations and contexts where forms of injustice and exclusion generated by the processes of neoliberal globalization are maintained and enhanced, even if concealed. Thus, the Paulo Freire Institute-Italy has proposed to build along with associations, groups, movements and individuals in civil society, ways of thinking in the search for new alternatives theoretical and practical oriented, economic, cultural, educational and social sustainable development .

The brazilian educator Paulo Freire’s legacy (1921-1997) has being updated and reinvented in different countries, in order to expand and to continue the many contributions he built during his life. The Freirian educational movement, which is very diverse now a days, continues linked to social movements that aim to fight oppression, seek social justice and the construction of civil and democratic rights. Accordingly, the main objectives of the International Meeting of Paulo Freire Forum are:
- Reflecting critically on the dominant model in contemporary civilization, its manifestations, logical, consequences, forms of exclusion and domestication;
- Sharing experiences, educational and socio-cultural practices taking place in different contexts, expressing particular alternatives to dominant models.
- Reflecting on the ways and practices of resistance to “re-existence” and construction of new lifestyles and models of coexistence based on attitudes and personal and social skills that foster new relationships among generations and among different ethnic and cultural groups.

The general theme of the International Meeting of 2014 will be “Paths of emancipation beyond the crisis”.

Inscriptions and papers submission

Inscription form and criterias for papers presentation are going to be available from 1ºst May to 30th June in the website www. paulofreire.it

Any doubts, send an email to: info@paulofreire.it

See the schedule below:

September 17, 2014

Morning Time:

9 am – Opening of the Forum. Tribute to Bartolomeu Bellanova and (In memorian) to Gino Piccio.
9h30 am – Inaugural Conference: The Freire’s Pedagogy in a globalized world procuder of exclusions and inequalities.
12h- Presentation of the five themes of the Forum.

Evening Time:

From 13 to 18h – Further reflection on the themes (*):
1. The education that emancipates against injustices, inequalities and vulnerabilities.
2. Education: local issues, citizen participation (popular participation), empowerment and renewal of social and political democracy.
3 . The relationship between planetary citizenship and ecopedagogy.
4. The relationship between the art world and the existential and educational communication.
5. Pedagogy for the construction of justice spaces in the occupied territories by corruption, lawlessness and crime.
(*) It’s foreseed round-tables with a brief introduction, made by 1 or 2 guests, followed by opened discussion and/or submission of registerd papers. Depending on the number of inscriptions, the time may be divided: from 13h to 15h30, discussion groups and deepening and from 16h to 18h30, performing Culture Circles and/or laboratory of experiences

September 18, 2014

Morning Time:

9am – Conference – Paulo Freire: From Pedagogy of the Oppressed to pedagogy of autonomy and of Hope
11am – Culture Circles (on the themes of the Forum)
From 11 am to 13h – Board Meeting of the IPFs

Evening Time:

To 13 from 18h – Short courses (optional, conducted by invited experts, subject to the existence of demand) on the following topics:
Education – contribution to active citizenship
Language teaching – A multilingual proposal
Ecopedagogy school
Paulo Freire in the classroom
Introduction to Freire’s political-pedagogical thought
Free afternoon for those who do not participate in short courses

September 19, 2014

Morning Time:

9am – Conference: Education and emancipation in the wake of Freirian Thoughts.
11h30 am – Witnesses and perspectives (multicultural visions)

Evening Time:

From 14h30 to 18h – Culture Circles on Italian and international experiences, relevant to the five main themes of the Forum.

September 20, 2014

Morning Time:

9am – The University of the popular “barefoot” (Villages’ Barefoot College – India) – brief report and testimony.
9h30 am – Closing conference: Another world is possible: social justice and the common good in a planetary perspective.
13h – Closing and Reading of the Charter of the International Meeting of Paulo Freire Forum from Torino.

Evening Time:

14h – Cultural programming – for people who are interested.

(Paulo Freire, Education as the practice of freedom)

In September 2013, indian Paulo Freire Institute organized a national seminar to commemorate the 93º educator Paulo Freire’s birthday, which had the theme: “Society, State and Education in India: Critical Issues from Freirean perspective.” On days 19 and 20, ninety-two Indians attended the meeting, divided into four parts: the inaugural session and three technical sessions.

The inaugural ceremony was introduced by a song played by the cultural group of students from the Sitakulchi college where the event happened. The principal of the college, Dr. Prabhas Chandra Samanta pointed to the fact that despite Freire’s educational philosophy have caused great impact on the world, it is not well known among indian educators. In this sense, Paulo Freire Institute from India, inaugurated in 2004, has given lectures, seminars and diverse backgrounds to fill the gap.

The seminar sought to reflect on the exigency for quality education in the country understood as a human rights issue and point the convergence of ideals between Tagore and Freire. From this perspective, after Dr. Samanta’s speech, the historian Prof. Ramprasad Pal talked about the importance of a participatory education, in contrast to the neoliberal model of education, especially in India, where the educational structure is not popular. The inaugural session ended with a speech from the honorary director of the Paulo Freire Institute from Bengal, Dr. Afzal Hossain, reading messages from different Paulo Freire Institutes, including Dr. Moacir Gadotti and Carlos Alberto Torres.

Dr. Carlos Alberto Torres delivering a Special lecture on Freirean Ideas in the Twenty-first Century : Meeting the Challenges

The first technical session was chaired by Dr. Prabhas Chandra Samantha. There were two papers presented for reflection: “Women’s Education in India : An Unfulfilled Task” written by Mr. Shakti Mandal, Chairman and Satyen Maitra Janashiksha Samity and “Democratic Method of Teaching: The Formal Context”, written by Dr. Supam Mukherjee. The first text points indian government’s disinterest in investing in women’s education, highlighting the fact that India is the country that has most illiterate women in the world. The main focus of the second text, in turn, was the educational method of the primary to the university. According to the author, the way to teach the learner is always underestimating it, which can cause negative effects in their formation.

The second technical session was coordinated by Dr.Afzal Hossain. The papers presented were written by Biswajit Gayen, a researcher at the political department of the school and Dr Khairul Anam, associate professor. The first text presented was entitled “Fundamentalism in Bangladesh and its Impact on Education and Society: Analysis from Freirean Perspective”, exposing the origins and developments of the conflict between the fundamentalist forces in Bangladesh in all aspects of life, including education. Later, Dr. Khairul Anam exposed her text “Developing quality in Education: Importance of Moral Value”, which sought to point out the constant degradation of education of young people in India and the importance of basic education.

The third technical session was the presentation of four papers: ‘Human Right and Present Education in India: A Critical Review from Freirean Perspective’ by Mr. Shyamal Mandal, “‘Role of Mass Education in Community Development in India’ by Mr. Anindya Sundar Chaudhury, “A Comparative Discussion on the Thinking of Tagore and Freire on Mass Education” by Dr. Debasish Mandal and ‘Women’s Education in Bengal During 19th Century: Perspectives from Tagore and Freire’ by Dr. Jayanti Mandal. The seminar ended with a reading of Dr. Afzal Hossain on “Education as Human Rights in the Indian context.”