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In this edition we celebrate the growing involvement of the freirian community in the production of the Bulletin UniFreire, which moves towards consolidating itself as a space of socialization of actions and reflections made by individuals and organizations who share the Paulo Freire ‘s philosophical, political and pedagogical principles.
Answering to our invitation, organizations with offices in several countries in America, Africa, Europe and Asia, shared news and articles about their projects or accomplishments that strengthen and continue the freirian legacy.
Education experiences for youth and adults held in Brazil, shared by educators from the Municipality of Caeté and from MOVA-Brazil project, socialize results that inspire new actions in this area. They reaffirm the important role of social inclusion through education, as a tool for reconstruction of destinations and the achievement of the right to full and participatory citizenship.
Testimonials from representatives of Paulo Freire Institute of Cape Verde and the Angolan Civil Society Network for Education for All, present to us viewpoints from the African continent, visibly “soggy” of Paulo Freire and Amilcar Cabral’s thought.
The presence of the European continent in this issue of the Bulletin is present by the shared acts of the Center Paulo Freire from Austria and the Paulo Freire Institute in Italy. Both are going to develop two important activities in 2014. Austrian group is holding the 6th Austrian Development Conference and the Italian is leading the coordination of the IX International Meeting of Paulo Freire Forum, which is taking the city of Turin as host, in September of this year.
The “Community Highlight” in this edition is the Paulo Freire Institute from India, which since 2004 has been conducting important actions to develop and strengthen the practice of Freire’s philosophy in that country. One of them is the translation of Paulo Freire’s texts for multiple languages, including bengalli. The same challenge is being embraced by another Asian country, Pakistan, where Iraj Education & Development Foundation has already made translations of Paulo Freire’s books for urdu language.
The section “Articles” brings important contributions of educators from Colombia, Mexico, from Cape Verde and Brazil, who share research and accomplishments, provoking reflections from different realities and viewpoints.
We appreciate the participation of all people who were willing to build with us this way, establishing links, building links, exposing and enhancing actions that bring us closer to our common dreams.
“Our utopia, our healthy insanity is to create a world in which power is based on ethics in such a way that without it, esfacele not survive. (…) This is, after all, the dream substantively democratic we aspire to, if consistently progressive. Dream of this world, however, is not enough for it to happen. We need to fight tirelessly to build it.”
Freire, Paulo. Book of Prophecy: Brazil in the third millennium. Brasilia, 1997.
Let’s stick together!
Participate in the next issues of the Bulletin UniFreire sending contributions to one or more sections through 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 of AAEA (Associação Angolana para Educação de Adultos)
Austria: – Nadine Mittempergher – Paulo Freire Center
Brazil: Anderson Fernandes de Alencar, Guilherme Barbeiro, Ísis Brandão, Ana Luísa Vieira, Janaína Abreu, Deisy Boscaratto, Moacir Gadotti and George Santos Silva of Paulo Freire Institute/Brasil; José Pereira Peixoto and Carolina Rezende Souza of Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Estadual de Minas Gerais; Afonson Celso Scocuglia of Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Lia Pinheiro Barbosa of Universidade Estadual do Ceará; Vilde Luiza Damônico of Instituto Superior Santo Antônio
Cape Verde: Florenço Mendes Varela of Instituto Paulo Freire/Cabo Verde
Colombia: Carmen Elisa Cantillo García of Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación Universidad del Atlántico
United States: Carlos Alberto Torres of Paulo Freire Institute
India: Afzal Hossain of Instituto Paulo Freire/Índia
Mexico: Diego Del Río from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxic
Pakistan: Irshad of EDF (Iraj Education & Development Foundation)
Portugal: Luíza Cortesão of Paulo Freire Institute/Portugal; Augustinho dos Reis Monteiro of Instituto da Educação