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Commission on Adult Education and Solidarity Economy/Social Economy
ICAE 7th World Assembly - Nairobi 2007
Commission
on Adult Education and Solidarity Economy/Social Economy 1. Introduction Economic, educational, social, cultural, sexual and reproductive rights are fully enjoyed only by a minority of the world population. The majority of human beings live with a “restricted citizenship”. They are men and women –mainly women- from popular sectors in rural and urban marginal areas, indigenous peoples, afro-descendents. REPEM, together with other civil society networks, has introduced in the debate of various forums the potential that self-employment experiences have as a socioeconomic space that can open the way for conquering rights. Some of these experiences that are of a collective and participatory character and generate shared economic results are part of what is known as economy of solidarity or social economy. We think that ICAE World Assembly is a highly relevant occasion to move forward in the debate around the importance of education in the generation of personal and collective capacities that are the basis for social, economic and political self-sustainability of the experiences that are part of social economy. This is so because of the specificity of youth and adult education that characterizes ICAE and for the high qualification of the expected participants. 2. Presentation The topic of the round table will be the portfolio of personal and collective assets, their potential to build political and social subjects and the constraints that come from the various types of discrimination. The debate will concentrate on the crucial role and the limitations of the educational assets –abilities, capacities, skills, basic knowledge- for the generation of social, political and economic assets, understood as the personal and collective “portfolio” essential for the self sustainability of social economy experiences. 3. Justification For the last twelve years REPEM has been developing its programme on education, gender and economy. One of the aims of the programme is to contribute with the feminist movement and other social and political actors in the construction of a new development paradigm with economic, social and gender justice and to do this on the basis of processes of education, lobby and research. One of the permanent challenges in the regional programme being implemented in 8 Latin American countries is the support to women from social economy experiences in their constitution as political subjects. REPEM’s proposal for the round table at ICAE’s World Assembly is to generate a debate around the centrality of education in the constitution of political and economic subjects. The central concept will be that of the “portfolio of assets”, researched by the anthropologist Jeanine Anderson and applied by REPEM. Anderson will participate at the table and will introduce the key issues for advancing the debate. 4. Topics for discussion, debate and proposals -
The generation of educational assets as enabling factors
for political and economic assets. 5. Objectives a. Deepen the debate on the potentials and constraints of education as a key element for the constitution of social subjects, within the framework of the “portfolio of assets”.
b. Make the
results of the workshop visible at ICAE World Assembly and at the World
Social Forum 6. Method a. Exchange among members of the working commission for preparing collectively the programme of the round table; sharing of documents through electronic communication. b. Round Table: Presentations in plenary session; feedback from critical points by the round table moderator. c. Final debate of critical points. d. Systematization of round table. Contact: Iliana Pereyra Sarti - REPEM Uruguay economia@repem.org.uy
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Commission on Adult Education and Solidarity Economy/Social Economy
In the
round table of Adult Education and Solidarity Economy/Social Economy,
we will have the following speakers:
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