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O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee – Gender and Education, 2022
This essay draws from four years of ethnographic fieldwork with women activists in self-defined Paulo Freirean-based popular education schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Rather than leaning on the traditions of education activism, modeled on Freire's class-based emancipatory vision, the women in this study sought to turn popular education's focus…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Activism, Feminism, Popular Education
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O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2020
Popular educators are encountering students' past trauma and dealing with how to engage ethically with social issues through "difficult knowledge" (Britzman 1998). The force of their curriculum provides the education community the ability to learn from their social conditions and share in the difficult knowledge experienced among them.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum, Social Problems
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O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee – Gender and Education, 2018
This investigation draws from Mouffe's [2005, "On the Political." London: Routledge] theoretical work on the politics of public togetherness, together with Biesta [2011, "The Ignorant Citizen: Mouffe, Rancière, and the Subject of Democratic Education." "Studies in Philosophy and Education" 30 (2): 141-153] and Kamat's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Education, Social Change, Neoliberalism
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O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee – Multicultural Education, 2018
This article discusses one social movement in Buenos Aires--"Frente Popular Darío Fernández" (FPDF)--whose goal was to assist public school teachers in becoming leaders of their communities by providing them an opportunity to learn about social mobilizing and popular education through a series of Freirean-based workshops. Guided by…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Activism, Teacher Collaboration, Foreign Countries
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O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2014
This article looks at popular adult educators' care of the self practices within social movements in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It answers the following questions: How is popular adult education practiced amongst educators in social movements? What can studying popular adult educators' care of the self practices offer the field of adult education?…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Educators, Social Change, Adult Education
Monkman, Karen, Ed.; Frkovich, Ann, Ed.; Proweller, Amira, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2022
This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity across an array of locations, exploring how it is understood, experienced, and acted upon by educators in schools, universities, and nonformal educational spaces. Precarity presents as layered, unpredictable, destabilizing, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Educational Policy
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Torres, Carlos Alberto; Fischman, Gustavo – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1994
Two popular education projects--El Refugio de Los Angeles for Latino immigrants and native popular education in Buenos Aires--demonstrate how, while developing literacy skills, participants engaged in political and social analysis of their living conditions. (SK)
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Literacy, Consciousness Raising, Critical Theory