Popular education and critical pedagogies
As researchers, committed to our historical time, from the CLACSO Working Group on Popular Education and Critical Pedagogies we believe that Latin America is currently facing vast challenges and crossroads.
For the current three-year period (2026-2029), the following methodological approaches are proposed:
1. The problematic symptoms of current reality. How is the present characterized? How is this historical moment interpreted? What new features appear in these configurations? What categories are no longer sufficient to explain the emergencies of our times? What is the potential of this present?
2. The question of the popular subject. What is the subject that is developing in the present time? What is happening to their subjectivities? Who is the subject of popular education, whom are they addressing with their discourses? What are their values and motivations for acting?
3. The construction of a historical project. What are the new utopias? What is the utopian project—subjective and collective—of the left today? With what categories will we name the world we want it to be?
coordinate
Estela Beatriz Quintar
Institute of Thought and Culture in Latin America, Civil Association
Mexico
Piedad Cecilia Ortega Valencia
Department of Social Sciences
Faculty of Humanities
National Pedagogical University
Colombia
Geronimo Fernando Santana
Historical Popular Educators and Researchers Cooperative
Argentina
