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| The Learning Societies Conference III was held at Porto Alegre, Brazil in the framework of the WSF 2005. |
This Conference was co-hosted by:
- Ellerni- Learning Community, Brazil
- Unitierra, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Shikshantar, Udaipur, India
- Abhivyakti, Nashik, India
- UNESCO, ED/BAS/LIT.
This conference was composed of:
A pre-conference from Jan 22 to 25, 2005.
Host: Ellerni - Learning Community
Around 30 particpants (essentially Latin American) got together for four days in a rural area close to Porto Alegre, to live and experience community life, interact with a local rural community, exchange in structured and non-structured dialogues around issues of collective interest to learning societies in Latin America as well as prepare their participation at the WSF V.
Host: UNESCO, ED/BAS/LIT
As part of the search/re-search programme, UNESCO ED/BAS/LIT explored the notion of Literacy, the section’s priority in the medium term. Some of the work being accomplished among learning communities in Latin America is relevant to the plural notion of literacy as defined in the position paper, 'The plurality of Literacy and its implication for policies and programmes' published recently by the Education section. Among the current activities under search / re-search, the Mexican partners CEDI and Unitierra are undertaking an in-depth reflexion and research on 'Orality, textuality and post-textuality' which is of immediate significance to some of the dimensions of literacy that appear in the mentioned paper. In the present conference in Brazil, this on-going research by CEDI / Unitierra in Mexico, its process, methodology and outcome was shared and debated upon. We have also considered a discussion around the notion of 'literacy and cultural identity'. However these ideas were still being discussed and a final shape was yet to be given. The outcome of this session was further explored in the following 5 workshops held during the Forum.
5 workshops at the WSF from Jan 26 to 31, 2005:
1. Cultural Regeneration
Leading Host: Unitierra
The workshop proposed a tool, using the metaphor of a tree, to reflect and analyze the situation of local cultures, specially in rural areas. This tool should enable participants to identify which of the day to day activities were connected to their own cultural roots and which one of them were based in external cultures.
2. Learning Processes in Indigenous Communities
Leading Hosts: Unitierra and Ellerni
This workshop hosted a dialogue and exchange experiences about learning between members of diverse indigenous communities in America with participants from Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Brazil and Argentina.
3. Diversity of learning styles
Leading Host: Ellerni
This space focussed on the impact of a standard education being forced on children with different learning styles. How to understand and integrate different learning styles into the learning processes used today inside and outside schools?
4. Unlearning
Leading Host: Abhivyakti and Shikshantar
This workshop explored both processes of unlearning (how does one unlearn, what kinds of relationships spaces, conditions foster unlearning?) as well as the content and issues for unlearning (what are some of the major myths, assumptions, stereotypes, attitudes, etc. we have unlearnt? where did we learn them in the first place?). This theme was already hosted at the Mumbai WSF 2004 and being central to LS members, it was proposed again at the Porto Alegre 2005 event.
5. Walk-outs
Leading Host: Shikshantar
This workshop got together those who have chosen to leave the dominant system of education in order to explore questions around their own learning paths and webs, the challenges and encouragement they have experienced, their initiatives to nurture these webs and their efforts to generate a collective spirit. This theme was also a big success at the Mumbai WSF 2004 and was followed by an initiative taken last summer by Al Jana, an LS member from Beirut, among the Palestinian refugee camps.
A stall for cultural and artistic expressions of the LS members from the different countries.
Host : Ellerni and Abhivyakti |
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