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Summary
of the International Meeting on Education On June 12th and 13 2001, in the city of Buenos Aires, the first International Meeting "Education by a responsible, plural and united world." took place. The objective of this Meeting was to discuss the draft document of the Proposals Notebook "Education: an international perspective for the debate" that will be debated during the World Assembly of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World, to be carried out in the city of Lille (France), from December 2nd to 10th, 2001. The meeting took place in the headquarters of the Confederation of the Education Workers of the Argentinian Republic (CTERA) and the document of discussion was the product of the work carried out between October 2000 and April 2001, by representatives of numerous grassroot organizations of the CTERA itself, the School of Pedagogic and Union Formation "Marina Vilte", and other guests belonging to different institutions and organizations. There were two workshops whose objective was to reflection on the document trying to question issues of those orders: conceptual, formal, methodological and structural, besides some critics that could need later reelaboration. In workshop 1, the work was centered, fundamentally, in the discussion of the Introductory articles and on Education and Culture. In the first case, the following observations, critics and suggestions were made: Related
to the relation between Education and Culture, the discussion turned,
fundamentally, around the redefinition of the State, this is, to the
problematization of the monocultural character of the States, trying
to reflect the possibility that from a project of intercultural education
the way toward a pluricultural State will be facilitated. Although this
situation is reflected in the document, it was understood that this
is an issue of The Workshop 2, through the relatoria and as a conclusion of the work has noticed the importance of interpreting the meaning of the document. A writing style is proposed that takes the occasional reader to feel the text before consuming it, with the objective of incorporating it to an active dialogue through its reading. The idea is that the reader of the text makes it of its own. It was observed that the text should be simple and flexible for reading and, at the same time, have the hability to cause questioning and inquiry before answers. The following theoretical directions were thought, that were themes of discussion: democracy, enlarged democracy, debate around the curriculum and the role of social movements in relation to the previous directions. As a restitution to the plenary the writer Eduardo Rosenzvaig, one of the relators of this workshop, wrote and read the following: "Multiplicity of educational ideas, strategies and actions from the plurality of worlds, territories and different cultures. In front of the financial power that seeks to be the unique voice, sacred of a deaf, silent, blind God to the people; the voices of this Babel. We are building a second version of the biblical legend. We in fact understand each other because we speak different languages. We should build the tower to break the curse of the man that is not able. We are forced to do it. In front of an economic prototype that says: the school is nothing, we put an array of bricks that says: the school is the scenario of the combat for democracy, justice, solidarity, responsibility, knowledge, imagination and beauty. We understand each other in every language because we don't talk of all the answers, but of all the questions. In these two days we passed hand in hand the questions as if they were bricks. The Public issue, The State, the Culture and their relation with the School. The bricklayers of our workshop came from Senegal and Algeria, Brazil, Canada and Uruguay, of the white Argentina or indigenous Argentina, of a Spain that is anti-Iberia. Bricklayers that speak of the personal experience with the genesis of the knowledge. What we are doing is the corrected and increased version of a legend and it warms us that CTERA has had the pasional modesty of taking up the hand and to say: I can collaborate taking a wheelbarrow." |
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