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Public Education Policies and New Privatization Trends
Intercambio #22 examines new privatization pressures on public education in the Americas. Download here:
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The Living Word: Revitalization of indigenous languages
Intercambio #23 Examines the work of communities and schools to strengthen the use of indigenous languages.
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Policies of the New Right in Public Education: Alternatives and Resistances
This issue of Intercambio examines the impact on Public Education of the rise of the New Right in the Americas
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16th Trinational Coalition Conference in Defense of Public Education: Declaration, Agreements and Resolutions
From November 8 -10, 2024, 113 representatives of educators’ unions, student groups and social organizations, and academics from post-secondary institutions, belonging to 31 organizations from 14 states and provinces in Mexico, the United States and Canada met in San Antonio, Texas at the 16th Trinational Conference to analyze the situation of the education sectors in our three countries, share experiences of struggle and agree on actions to defend and teach our rights. We attach below the declaration and resolutions of the 16th Conference.
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Intercambio 20
Public Education, Society and Environmental Crisis Year 12, No. 20, may 2023 This issue of Intercambio Magazine explores the public education we need to build an active citizenry with thinking and skills that empower them to address the crises. It outlines obstacles that must be overcome to make these changes in public education, and explores some concrete examples in different parts of the Americas where community and schools come together to defend the earth. The crises of climate change and ecological collapse present dual challenges for public schools throughout the Americas. As institutions working with children and youth from all sectors of society including the most vulnerable, public schools must…
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Intercambio 19
Global Plans for Education Clash with Local Aspirations Year 12, No.19, October 2022 In mid-2019, the Organization for Economic and Co-operative Development (OECD) unveiled its “learning compass.” Described as a “framework that aims to help students navigate towards future well-being,” the Learning Compass outlined the OECD’s goals for global education over the next decade. The compass was unveiled amid colonial tropes of discovery and conquest but couched in perfunctory references to adapting global priorities to the “local context.” It was also introduced on the eve of the COVID pandemic, offering an enticing promise of a charted path to well-being. Indeed, the OECD is now finalizing a “teaching compass,” extending the…
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Letter in support
Letter in support of Guatemalan students, faculty, university workers and professionals who defending the Autonomy of the University of San Carlos and fair transparent and legal elections for university president
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Intercambio No.17
PUBLIC EDUCATION IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC INTRODUCTION In 2020, the Initiative for Democratic Education in the Americas (IDEA Network) hosted a series of webinars called “Public Education in Times of Pandemic” with the objective of analyzing the impact of the crisis on public education. We also wanted to contribute to a discussion on alternatives to the changes that COVID-19 has produced and that have had a serious impact on education. We hoped to make space for reflection on the kind of public education that we will need in a post-pandemic world. The final webinar looked at the big questions like “What will education be like in the new period?” After…
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Weaving a Public Education that Transforms the World
Declaration of theHemispheric Forum The Initiative for Democratic Education in America – IDEA, together with students, teachers, education activists and social and trade union organizations of the Americas, commemorate the life and legacy of Paulo Freire. Freire was a great advocate for emancipatory education to build societies with social justice and democracy. We seek to deepen the knowledge of his work, and recognize the pedagogical experiences inspired by his thought and developed in the daily struggles of students, teachers and communities in defense of education as a social right, generating critical, humanistic and transformative thinking. The disastrous impacts of 40 years of neoliberal privatization of social rights has generated a…
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HEMISPHERIC FORUM
WEAVING PUBLIC EDUCATION THAT TRANSFORMS THE WORLD Centennial of Paulo Freire´s birth October 20-21, 2021 The member organizations of the Initiative for Democratic Education in the Americas (IDEA Network) call for a Hemispheric Forum: “Weaving public education that transforms the world”, to be held on October 20 and 21, 2021. The peoples of the Americas and the entire world are living through complex moments in which not only the devastating effects of a pandemic, but also new offensives against human rights in all fields, are intersecting. However, the struggle to defend them has been swift, as have actions of solidarity among peoples. In the face of the challenges we have…
