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Currently I am doing research on citizenship education, civic engagement and participatory democracy, paying particular attention to participatory budgeting and citizen assemblies.
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August 2010 - present
July 1998 - May 2010
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ESCUELAS RESIDENCIALES Y ENSEÑANZA DE LA HISTORIA: ENTRE EL CURRÍCULO Y EL MUSEO.
Las escuelas residenciales (conocidas en inglés como ‘residential schools’ o ‘boarding schools’) constituyen uno de los episodios más traumáticos en la historia de los pueblos indígenas de América del Norte (Estados Unidos y Canadá). La mayoría de estas escuelas oper...
This chapter addresses three roles that universities have performed throughout history: (1) serve the interests of the state, (2) contribute to emancipation and social change, and (3) participate in the global education market. The status of global higher education development is outlined in terms of international policy efforts and as reported in...
Education by Experience (Educación por la Experiencia, E × E) is a programme that offers an innovative model of teaching values to children, youth, and adults. Its materials include different grade-level student textbooks as well as educator and parent guidebooks. Since its establishment in 2010, the programme has achieved broad dissemination and s...
School Participatory Budgeting (SPB) is an innovative civic learning program designed to build student agency, collaboration, and critical thinking skills while creating equitable opportunities for students to authentically contribute to their communities and civic life. SPB is at the same time a tool for citizenship education, a tool for civic eng...
Thousands of governments and institutions have implemented participatory budgeting (PB), giving residents the power to decide how to spend part of a public budget. Recently, many schools and universities have also used PB to engage students, educators, and community members in making spending decisions. A growing body of research supports the claim...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Paulo Freire, one of the most influential educational thinkers of the 20th century. In the 21st century, he continues to inspire many progressive educators around the world. This paper focuses on the connections between Freire's work and ideas (especially those related to citizenship education a...
Neste ano, celebramos três centenários que inspiraram muitos educadores progressistas em todo o mundo. Em primeiro lugar, 2021 marca o 100º aniversário da criação de Summerhill, uma das primeiras experiências (senão a primeira) sobre democracia escolar no mundo. Em segundo lugar, neste ano, comemoramos o 100º aniversário de Edgar Morin, um sociólog...
This report provides a comprehensive literature review of the current body of research on School Resource Officers (SROs) and programs, and is organized in 7 sections. The first section describes the methodological approach utilized to collect data and the sources that were consulted in the literature search. The second section recounts the origins...
Introduction. This article examines the modern educational approach in the field of liberal arts and practical finance, democratisation of the decision-making system in educational institutions through the active engagement of students on the example of US schools and universities. This approach is based on initiative, or participatory budgeting, i...
Prior research indicates that school safety approaches emphasizing the presence of school resource officers (SROs) on campus are not very effective in making schools safer and are often associated with negative outcomes, including lower academic performance and higher levels of school violence, dropout rates, antisocial behavior, and interactions w...
Does school participatory budgeting (SPB) increase students’ political efficacy? SPB, which is implemented in thousands of schools around the world, is a democratic process of deliberation and decision-making in which students determine how to spend a portion of the school’s budget. We examined the impact of SPB on political efficacy in one middle...
The International Conference celebrated at the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in February 2018 had a suggestive title: “Social Pedagogy and Social Education: Bridging Traditions and Innovations”. The title was interesting in part because it aimed at connecting historical development and emerging trends, but mostly because it aspired to bring togeth...
In the COVID-19 era, most governments around the world closed schools to mitigate the spread of the virus. Students, educators and families had to navigate uncharted learning landscapes. Alternative models of delivering education proliferated. In this context, we revisit Illich’s educational ideas through the lens of pandemic-related shifts. We pay...
Resumen En este trabajo se presentan resultados de un estudio de revisión bibliométrica y bibliográfica sobre experiencias innovadoras en educación ciudadana en los últimos diez años (2009-2018), extraídos de un total de 479 artículos publicados en cuatro revistas académicas españolas. Para el análisis de los datos se elaboró una ficha para clasifi...
Examining the reasons that led to the recent expansion of higher education in Brazil is a notable challenge. Debating this educational issue, taking as a reference the demands of contemporary monopoly capitalism of financial predominance is an even more complex task, impossible to achieve, in its fullness, in a text. However, it is the central chal...
Our planet is facing an unprecedented ecological crisis. The latest scientific reports estimate that if global greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced in the next decades, the impact on environmental, physical, social, and economic wellbeing will be devastating. For instance, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), after assessing 30...
Most research on the effects of participatory budgeting focuses on issues like government performance, spending patterns, responsiveness, accountability, transparency, equity (redistributive justice), neighborhood revitalization, community building, social networks, health and well-being, and poverty reduction, among others. Another body of researc...
Edited Proceedings of the conference "Social Pedagogy and Social Education: Bridging Traditions and Innovations", celebrated in Puebla, Mexico, on Feb. 22-24, 2018.
Introduction to a special issue of the Alberta Journal of Educational Research exploring the relationship between adult education and post-secondary institutions. The writings that appear in this publication represent a broad survey of current research, innovative projects, and diverse perspectives from academic and non-academic based researchers....
What does it mean to democratize public education in one of the most unequal countries
of the world? This was a question faced by the Popular Front, a progressive coalition led
by the Workers' Party, when it was elected to govern the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, in
1988. After a year and-a-half process of deliberation and decision-making that incl...
This article argues that social pedagogy can make a contribution to discussions on learning democracy through participation. The latest discussions on improving the relationship between citizens and local government are relevant to social pedagogy, as they recognize local knowledge, and attempt to develop new political and democratic competences an...
The first International Social Pedagogy Conference took place February 22-24, 2018 in Puebla, Mexico. The conference, Social Pedagogy and Social Education: Bridging Traditions and Innovations, was hosted by Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) in partnership with the Social Pedagogy Association, ASU, REMPES, and Ceiba. The conference ho...
Edited book with conference proceedings
Este trabajo analiza las relaciones entre educación para la ciudadanía, identidad y patrimonio, centrándose en el
tratamiento didáctico que se desarrolla en varios tipos de museos, en este caso, dentro del ámbito estadounidense.
Para ello se analizan, empleando una metodología cualitativa de observación y registro de datos, las propuestas
educativa...
Este trabajo analiza las relaciones entre educación para la ciudadanía, identidad y patrimonio, centrándose en el tratamiento didáctico que se desarrolla en varios tipos de museos, en este caso, dentro del ámbito estadounidense. Para ello se analizan, empleando una metodología cualitativa de observación y registro de datos, las propuestas
educativa...
With the development of online participatory platforms, many governments are extending consultation processes beyond traditional face-to-face meetings. These online spaces are used by government agencies to collect ideas from the public and to aggregate preferences through non-binding voting procedures. Many of these digital platforms allow residen...
Resumen A veinte años de la muerte de Paulo Freire, rescatamos un elemento central de su pensamiento pedagógico: su convencimiento de que la educación puede hacer una valiosa contribución a la formación de sujetos democráticos y eventualmente a la construcción de una sociedad más justa y democrática. Freire decía que la educación no cambia el mundo...
The paper discusses the process of expansion of Brazilian higher education, considering the demands of contemporary monopoly capitalism of financial dominance. The text is an exploratory study based on literature and document analysis of converging problems that are necessary to understand the subject by adopting a perspective of analysis that comb...
The struggle to find adequate mental health care is complicated by underlying factors of discrimination, cultural barriers, lack of early recognition, and inadequate resources. Traditionally, it has been difficult to talk about mental health issues because of fear of bias, cultural sensitivities and the lack of a safe place to discuss public concer...
Governments use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in various ways to include the public into decision-making processes, and online public participation is one of the participatory activities included in open government plans. Using data from comments posted on an online deliberative platform initiated by a municipal government, this...
RESUMO O artigo tem como objetivo contribuir para o entendimento sobre a mudança da natureza do trabalho professor – que se torna de forma predominante imaterial e produtivo-diante dada mercantilização da universidade americana e seus novos papeis no âmbito social e econômico. O que a faz parte central do sistema de produção. Esta compreensão possi...
Along with the development of information and communication technologies, many local governments have added online ‘invited spaces’ to traditional face-to-face meetings to engage citizenry. The literature suggests that online and offline participation can benefit from each other when they operate in an integrated way (integrated hybridity) rather t...
In North America, the use of the term ‘social pedagogy’ is a relatively new
phenomenon, but social pedagogical practices have been used for a long time. The recent interest in the
field of social pedagogy can be explained in part by the publication of an unprecedented volume of books and
articles in English language, the creation of a new internati...
Since the Jasmine revolution of January 14, 2011 that sparked the Arab Spring, Tunisian social and political life has changed considerably. The people of Tunisia started to experience the basic preconditions of a democratic state, including freedom of expression, freedom of the press, political pluralism, and competitive elections. The intense fear...
O artigo busca compreender as funções sociais, econômicas e políticas da ciência acadêmica dos Estados Unidos em consolidada transição para recolocar a universidade como parte do sistema produção. Este entendimento possibilita compreender as mudanças estruturais em curso no Brasil e suas consequências para a vida do intelectual pesquisador da unive...
This article explores the social, economic and political context of higher education reforms in the United States in order to understand contemporary changes in Brazilian higher education. The paper argues that while the Brazilian higher education system has made important achievements in the last decade, the academic profession cannot escape marke...
There is a growing public discourse that volunteering increases the likelihood of finding a better job because it improves social and human capital. While previous studies have largely treated volunteers' motivations as individualistically determined, contextual determinants of volunteers' motivations are relatively neglected. The purpose of this s...
This article explores the social, economic and political context of higher education reforms in the United States in order to understand contemporary changes in Brazilian higher education. The paper argues that while the Brazilian higher education system has made important achievements in the last decade, the academic profession cannot escape marke...
Resumo O artigo busca compreender o processo de diversificação institucional das universidades estatais brasileiras como parte do processo de expansão da educação superior brasileira. A hipótese trabalhada consiste em que ambos os processos são a expressão da reforma do Estado Brasileiro em curso desde a década de 1990 que foi exigida em razão da a...
There is a growing public discourse that volunteering increases the likelihood of finding a better job because it improves social and human capital. While previous studies have largely treated volunteers’ motivations as individualistically determined, contextual determinants of volunteers’ motivations are relatively neglected. The purpose of this s...
Public participation in local decision-making processes has numerous purported benefits. Yet, realizing these benefits requires a citizenry that is able and willing to participate in meaningful ways. High schools are ideal venues for civic education but rarely teach local collective action, citizen engagement, and self-governance, focusing instead...
Informal learning has always been part of humankind, but only in recent decades has it attracted the attention of educational researchers. This chapter examines four challenges (conceptual, methodological,institutional, and pedagogical) related to informal learning. The section on the conceptual challenge addresses the distinctions between informal...
Informal learning has always been part of humankind, but only in recent decades has it attracted the attention of educational researchers. This chapter examines four challenges (conceptual, methodological, institutional, and pedagogical) related to informal learning. The section on the conceptual challenge addresses the distinctions between informa...
This study builds upon earlier studies of the degree of interchangeability between volunteers and paid staff in nonprofit organizations. While these earlier studies were from an organization perspective, this study is from the perspective of volunteers, and looks at individual and organizational characteristics in all types of organizations—nonprof...
Resumo O artigo busca compreender o processo de diversificação institucional das universidades estatais brasileiras como parte do processo de expansão da educação superior brasileira. A hipótese trabalhada consiste em que ambos os processos são a expressão da reforma do Estado Brasileiro em curso desde a década de 1990 que foi exigida em razão da a...
With a long tradition that can be traced to the 19th century, social pedagogy has evolved as a discipline that combines educational and social perspectives and interventions. Since its origins, it has been concerned with
the mutual relations between human development, on the one hand, and the development of a just and democratic society, on the oth...
This is an interview with Hans Thiersch (b. 1935). His work became particularly influential since the 1970s, when he applied the concept of lifeworld orientation to social pedagogy, and helped to connect the field of social pedagogy with the Frankfurt School. Indeed, Thiersch can be considered one of the representatives of a critical social pedagog...
RESUMO: Este artigo examina a literatura sobre a sociedade da aprendizagem durante a última metade do século. A primeira parte aborda algumas questões conceituais e apresenta um breve panorama histórico. A segunda parte sistematiza teorizações sobre a sociedade da aprendizagem em torno de seis temas: auto-realização, desenvolvimento econômico, merc...
This study builds on an earlier one (Handy, Mook, and Quarter 2008) that examined the degree of interchangeability between volunteers and paid employees in nonprofit organizations. In the current study, we surveyed 836 nonprofits in Canada to understand what factors determine the degree of interchange between paid employees and volunteers, bearing...
With over 150 years of history, social pedagogy is both an interdisciplinary scholarly field of inquiry and a field of practice that is situated in the intersection of three areas of human activity: education, social work and community development. Although social pedagogy has different emphases and approaches depending on particular historical and...
Former President of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, an adult educator himself, once said that adult education is the Cinderella of government departments (Nyerere 1988). This dictum applies as much to most Latin American countries as it does to Tanzania. Adult education governmental agencies throughout the region are often underfunded, forgotten and marg...
This chapter reports findings from an inquiry into the learning of housing cooperative volunteers. The volunteers who participated in this study are involved in the self-governance of their housing co-operatives. These mini-democracies are an excellent context in which to tease out some of the informal learning of volunteers related to the democrat...
Informal learning and volunteer work are two dynamics that coexist everyday in communities throughout the world. However, we still know comparatively little about the nature of these dynamics. While an abundant literature exists on work, only a small portion of this literature deals with volunteer work. Likewise, only a minority of the vast literat...
In many places all around the world, millions of people devote enormous amounts of time and energy every year in their communities to civic activities. A small proportion of people do this as part of their paid jobs. Among them are elected and appointed officials, professional politicians, technical staff, union and business leaders, researcher-act...
One of the classic types of volunteer work takes place in community-based organizations that seek to make their communities a better place. In this chapter we report on a study conducted with volunteers in several community-based organizations that are associated with the Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (OHCC). They range from minor sports as...
National surveys such as the Canadian Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP), and the Work and Lifelong Learning (WALL) survey reveal that the volunteering patterns and activities of immigrants and Canadian born volunteers are similar, donating time and energy to their communities (Volunteer Canada, 2007). The growing trend of imm...
This essay reports analytically some of the conclusions of a larger research project. It discusses the connections between teachers unions, their presence in civil societies, and their confrontation with State policies particularly under neoliberal regimes. It explores how teacher unions accumulate – through conflict and collaboration – political a...
This article discusses findings from two case studies examining the impact of neoliberal education reform on the classroom practice of teachers and adult educators in Ontario, Canada. We asked educators to comment on the impacts of 20 years of policy shifts in their classrooms. Teachers in public schools and adult literacy programmes echoed each ot...
In the first decade of the 21st century, efforts to create alternatives to neoliberalism emerged in many parts of Latin America. Social movements across the region took to the streets, occupied abandoned factories, and started to create new democratic spaces, solidarity networks, and social economy initiatives. In one country after another, progres...
A coherent account of Freire's educational thought, including coverage of the reception and influence of his work and its relevance today
Daniel Schugurensky is associate professor, adult education and community development program, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT). He was born and raised in Argentina, and completed university degrees in Mexico and Canada. Before joining OISE/UT in 1998, he worked as visiting professor at the University of C...
This article examines the main trends in adult education policy in Latin America during the 1990s. During this period, in spite of the commitments made by national governments in Jomtien in 1990 and ratified in Dakar in 2000, adult education in Latin America has been marginalized and neglected, both in terms of public policy and public funding. Thi...
Youth participation in school governance is on the rise with increased opportunities for student involvement. The objective of this mixed method study was to provide the first analysis of the student trustee role, a relatively new form of participation where high school students represent their peers on local school boards. Specifically, the aim wa...
The article examines dimensions of poverty and equality of educational opportunity in the higher education sector in the era of neoliberal economy, and their implications for social justice. The author considers the role that universities should be playing - and the role that they are actually playing - in promoting social justice. The author argue...
In 1989, the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre initiated a model of budget participation known internationally as "participatory budgeting." In this process of diagnosis, deliberation and decision-making, city residents directly decide how to allocate part of a public budget, typically at the level of municipal government. During the past two decades,...
Where do civics teachers learn about the content and methods of civics education? What is the impact of these learning experiences on their teaching approaches? Driven by these questions, we undertook a study with civics teachers in Ontario, Canada. Whereas citizenship education is often understood as occurring exclusively in formal schooling, and...
Citizenship education is a vast field that includes a wide range of philosophical, political and ideological perspectives, and of pedagogical approaches, goals and practices. At the most abstract level of discourse, there is a general consensus that the main purpose of citizenship education is the development of good democratic citizens. In terms o...
Volunteers develop instrumental and interpersonal skills through their work with community organizations, a form of learning that could be deepened and expanded with intentional reflection.
This chapter explores the dimensions of informal civic learning of a local democracy initiative known as Healthy City Toronto (HCT). It examines one of the programmes of HCT, the Seniors’ Task Force, particularly the content and process of the participants’ learning.
This study is part of an international research project that explores the pedagogi...
This paper examines four challenges (conceptual, methodological, recognition and pedagogical) that arose from undertaking research on informal citizenship learning in different contexts. The first challenge is to better understand the different expressions and internal features of informal learning. The second challenge relates to the need to devel...
This presentation addresses this question: to what extent is the social economy covered in economics and business textbooks? The conclusions are summarized in three points:
1. Social economy organizations make significant contributions to the economy and to
society. Based on size and economic reach alone, co-operatives and nonprofits are a
signific...
This paper presents findings from four Canadian settings where volunteers have acquired attitudes, skills and knowledge related to community sustainability. Most of the learning was informal, and includes the three areas of sustainability (social, environmental and economic).
This chapter is organized in two parts. The first one examines some conceptual issues around the
concept of a learning society, distinguishes between the normative and the descriptive literature,
and provides a brief historical overview. The second part discusses six main themes identified in
the North American literature on learning societies: sel...
The learning and changes experienced by these women and men are not the result of self-help books, counseling, or formal schooling. Rather, they came about through involvement in participatory budgeting, an innovative democratic process that is practiced in hundreds of cities in Latin America and elsewhere. In 1970, Carole Pateman suggested that th...
This paper examines four challenges (conceptual, methodological, recognition and pedagogical) that arose from undertaking research on informal citizenship learning in different contexts. The first challenge is to better understand the different expressions and internal features of informal learning. The second challenge relates to the need to devel...
The article examines dimensions of poverty and equality of educational opportunity in the higher education sector in the era of neoliberal economy, and their implications for social justice. The author considers the role that universities should be playing – and the role that they are actually playing – in promoting social justice. The author argue...
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Worker-recovered companies, worker-recuperated enterprises, worker-occupied and taken companies or firms or enterprises or factories... This phenomenon is known by many terms in English. In Spanish, they are known as empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (worker-recuperated enterprises...my prefered term). When writing about them, I use the Spanish acronym ERT/ERTs. I also use WRCs (worker-recuperated/recovered companies). Call them what you will, they are a world-wide phenomenon and increasing in uptake in multiple countries the world over as world capitalism continues to unfold but under perpetual crisis. In countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay (where the phenomenon unfolds as labour-conflict recuperations), or Italy, France, and Spain (where we find mostly negotiated recuperations, but also labour conflict ones), and also in Canada, the US, the UK, and elsewhere, workers and other labour, social and solidarity economy, and community protagonists continue to invent ways of occupying, taking over, converting, and re-starting once-capitalist or public firms as worker owned and controlled cooperatives.