Alexandre da Trindade[1]
Juliana Spadotto[2]
What could a conference on popular education be, based on the ideas of popular education and Paulo Freire? This question has stimulated us in the last two years.
Thesecond edition of the Freire Conference, “Building the bridge between popular education and university”, which took place between 17 and 21 October at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge and in two academic institutions in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was an experience in that sense. It was an initiative organised by a collective of people based in multiple educational institutions and social movements which proposes to broaden the limits and cross the barriers that separate the academic communities (particularly those belonging to the most traditional and hegemonic institutions) from education and popular knowledge by promoting meetings, relationships and democratic spaces that have in common a striving for transformation and social…
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Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective 