Abstract

ADAMS, Telmo. A historical look at popular education in Latin America. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2022, vol.27, e0220051. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v27.e0220051.

The present essay emerged from reflections resulting from reading Adriana Puiggrós in dialogue with other authors. It thus seeks to value its contribution in the historical perspective to better understand the path of Popular Education in Latin America. This bibliographic study with a critical approach aims to deepen the understanding of the characteristics of expressions of Popular Education in its various contexts; and indicate some significant influences on the way of being and its development in different realities. Among the main results is the gathering of comprehensive elements from pedagogical sources, trends and characteristics of Popular Education throughout history. The contributions of Simón Rodríguez, José Martí, Elizardo Pérez, José Carlos Mariátegui and Paulo Freire are evident, who are recognized as references identified with the history and social practice of Popular Education in Latin America. It is concluded that, despite the diversity of ways of being, the historical view shows that there is potential and real meanings for its recreation to resist and produce pedagogical mediations that contribute to the social transformation of our societies steeped in social inequality. The field of action of Popular Education expands in society, being able to encompass school education and multiple spaces of society, in the understanding that education is not the only way to transform society; however, equally, it is not a mere ideological apparatus of the State solely aimed at the reproduction of the dominant ideology. In the dialectical view, there is no place for essentialist or idealist or mechanistic conceptions.

Keywords : Popular Education; Latin America; Adriana Puiggrós; Pedagogical discourses.

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