Historical and Philosophical Notes on Popular Education in the Americas

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

During this symposium each panelist will address different issues pertaining to popular education. Maximiliano Durán will explore the Simón Rodríguez’s (1769-1854) work in popular education, from his invention of a popular school at Chuquisaca to his influence on ways of thinking about the "new life." Charlotte María Sáenz will discuss Zapatista pedagogical thought as a critical and positioned thinking-feeling (pensar-sentir), one that re-makes, from struggle itself, social relations and the way we interact with Mother Earth. Jason Thomas Wozniak will investigate financial debt as an apparatus of control and subjugation in the educational systems of the United States, and as an element of the neoliberal public policies that are devastating educational systems throughout the Americas.

Sub Unit

• Americas Education Research Network

Chair

• Walter Kohan, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and University of British Columbia

Papers

• Simon Rodriguez: A Manifesto for a New Life - Maximiliano Lionel Durán, Universidad de Buenos Aires

• Some Initial Reflections and Questions on Intergalactic Zapatista Education - Charlotte Maria Sáenz, Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico

• Debt Resistance Philosophy and Popular Education: Ethical Arguments for Education Debt Strikes Across the Americas - Jason Thomas Wozniak, San Jose State