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Citizens educating themselves: D’Elia, L. (2009). Citizens educating themselves: The case of Argentina in the post- economic collapse. In Ali A. Abdi & Dip Kapoor (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Adult Education (pp. 207- 220). NY: Palgrave-Macmillan. The case of Argentina in the post- economic collapse

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Citizens educating themselves:. D’Elia, L. (2009). Citizens educating themselves: The case of Argentina in the post-economic collapse. In Ali A. Abdi & Dip Kapoor (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Adult Education (pp. 207-220). NY: Palgrave-Macmillan. . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Citizens educating themselves:

D’Elia, L. (2009). Citizens educating themselves: The case of Argentina in the post-economic collapse. In Ali A. Abdi & Dip Kapoor (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Adult Education (pp. 207-220). NY: Palgrave-Macmillan.

The case of Argentina in the post-economic collapse

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AcknowledgementThanks to the Global Education Network - Dr Lynette Shultz & Dr Ali Abdi

My work and publications on Argentina’s educational initiatives have been possible thanks to the encouragement and “persistence” of Dr Ali Abdi.

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.• A review of the literature reaffirmed that

research and visions related to Adult Basic Learning and Education in the South are dominated by the North, by international agencies and by English-speaking reviewers, often ignoring or dismissing research produced in the South, especially if it is written in languages other than English. (Torres, 2004)

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plan • Post-Military post-collapse conditions

leading to • formation of Argentinean “crisis” new

movement• autonomous ways of adult and collective

education to resist dependency• Recent events

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NO CONFIDENCE IN THE OLD SYSTEM

Argentina, the “grain supplier of the world” after WWII and once considered the most stable social systems

• In 2001, its government defaulted on $US100 billion debt, the largest sovereign debt default in history (Feldstein, 2002)

• The currency and the banking system collapsed• Argentinean government sequestered all the savings

of the middle and poor class • wiped out almost completely its middle class

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“With all of their institutions in crisis, hundreds of thousands of Argentineans went back to democracy's first principles” (Klein, 2003).

– popular assemblies*– trading clubs (barter), – comm.health clinics– community kitchens– take over of ~200abandoned factories

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• autonomous & independent of any organized socio-political structure...

“piqueteros”, food rioting groupings, factory workers, or massive neighbourhood assemblies,

• radically opposed past and current socio-political experiments (Armelino, 2002; Klein, 2003; Lodola, 2003)

• developed unprecedented relations with social agency &

powers in the world (D’Elia, 2005)

• resisted assimilation by government, political parties, established social and labor movements, and even NGOs.

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teaching & learning inventions

Two observations from contemporary adult education :

• REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION

• CAPITALISM PROFITING FROM EDUCATIONBourgeois class has “the power to profit from educational knowledge...” (Murphy, 1988)

However, the autonomous movement in Argentina appears to escape both

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Pair up!

• Why do you think corporations could not profit from the education of the Argentineans organized in the new autonomous movement?

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power to profit from education proportional to

• Assimilation into institutional, labour and political structures

• Incorporation into production machinery

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However,

– Many asambleistas were not entering the labour force but established their own micro-enterprises

– Some piquetero groups working on the state-plan program, (no dependency on private capitalists) (Auyero, 2001)

– Many factory take overs >> running as cooperatives (no capitalistic approach) (Klein, 2003).

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Uncompromised informal education

• Popular educators group – Área de Educación Popular del Movimiento Barrios

de Pie –Neighborhoods Standing Up

• literacy and post-literacy• elementary and high school completion• workshops history and political education • Workshops on trade work, popular assemblies’ participatory

techniques; • travelling workshops on “Free Trade of the Americas”,

Foreign Debt, among others (Movimiento Barrios de Pie, 2005).

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LITERACY PROGRAMS Non formal education – Paulo Freire’s methodology

Argentinean popular education:• conscious raising – action committed• free access • bottom-top approach

• communal, non-governmental (D’Elia, 2005; Barrios de Pie, 2002)

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• “Yo Si Puedo” a literacy audiovisual program for adults provided to the Argentinean Barrios de Pie

– stemming from “Instituto de Pedagogos de Latinoamérica y el Caribe” and the UMMEP(Un Mundo Mejor es Posible)

EDUCATION by some NGOs•Caritas, and others•Green Peace & other internat. organizations

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recent information• Neighborhood Assembly in

Gualeguaychu city

Buenos Aires

Took over a huge environmental challengeby self-educating, researching, and takingcommunal activism against the building of one of the biggest pulp mill in the world:“Botnia”, on the Uruguay River banks

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• Issues of power symmetry

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European Union-LA Summit

http://www.noalaspapeleras.com.ar/noalaspapeleras.asp

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ysmal2_CY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.noalaspapeleras.com.ar%2Fvideos.asp&feature=player_embedded

Michael Hardt said that what makes the imperial hegemony vulnerable is not the anti-imperialism but the self-management

by autonomous groups like the ones in Argentina, Mexico (Chiapas), Brazil (landless movement), and others.

To me, the collective education of the new autonomous movement, at least, is self-sustaining its own survival by rebelling against

the rules of the market that have profited from and deceived an entire generation in Argentina

Thank you

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Thank you• Notes in:www.education.ualberta.ca/staff/ldelia