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13TH International Meeting the Presence of Paulo Freire
A Place to Reflect and Grow
MAY 2 – 6, 2024
5th International Workshop of Heritage, Identity, and Culture of Peace,
A Better World is Possible.
2nd International Workshop of Early Childhood Education,
Preparation for participation. A loving mission.
5th International Workshop of Inclusive Education,
In Favor of An Education for All.
2nd International Workshop: Guilds and Popular Education,
Realizing Dreams Based on Our Realities.
7th International Workshop: ProCreArte 2024,
Promote and Create Art from the Community.
6th Student Forum,
Projecting New Horizons.
INTERNATIONAL MEETING THE PRESENCE OF PAULO FREIRE,
A PLACE TO REFLECT AND GROW
The Association of Cuban Pedagogists and The University of Cienfuegos invite educators, researchers, and other professionals with a related interest to Cienfuegos, Cuba to participate in our unique space to learn, reflect, and share the application of the pedagogical philosophy of the Great Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire. Our Meeting is broken up into three distinct activities.
Presentation Day: Delegates can share the work they do in their home institutions or organizations. It is a chance to share research, best practices, and other reflections. Presentations can come in the form of poster presentations, roundtable discussions, audiovisuals, visual or performance art.
Community Visits: Delegates will get the opportunity to visit various communities within the province of Cienfuegos, Cuba. Within the day long community visits, delegates will hear from educators on the ground, leaders of local organizations, and meet with students and other local organizational participants.
Space for Reflection and Growth: Delegates will split into the various workshops to share and reflect on the experiences of the previous two days. These circles of culture are unique forums for learning and discussing more intimately the Meeting’s themes and areas of discussion. The concurrent workshops are:
- 13th International Meeting, “The Presence of Paulo Freire”
- 5th International Workshop of Heritage, Identity, and Culture of Peace, “A Better World is Possible”
- 2nd International Workshop: Guilds and Popular Education, “Realizing Dreams Based on Our Realities”
- 5th International Workshop of Inclusive Education, “In Favor of An Education for All”
- 2nd International Workshop of Early Childhood Education, “Preparation for participation. A loving mission.”
- 7th International Workshop: ProCreArte 2024, “Promote and Create Art from the Community”
- 6th Student Forum, “Projecting New Horizons”
This year, the overall theme is community resilience in confronting in the face of climate change.
- Honor Popular Educator Paulo Freire, Master Emeritus of America, as part of the Latin American and Caribbean Day in defense of his legacy, in honor of the centenary of his birth.
- Deepen research and investigation of the theoretical and practical contributions of Popular Education in times of climate change.
- Reflect critically on the experiences presented to confront climate change with the aim of extracting theoretical and methodological learning based on Popular Education.
- Stimulate artistic creation from the community around the work and thought of Paulo Freire and those coming from the community’s own experiences around the thematic axis of reflection.
- Promote analysis and transformative proposals in times of climate change from the perspective of the younger generation in support of The Tarea de Vida Project.
- Reflect on the experiences of inclusive education in the face of climate change and the fulfillment of The Tarea de Vida Project.
- Appreciate, extract learnings, and challenges to the processes of preservation, conservation, and development of heritage, identity and culture of peace contribute to the Tarea de Vida project in the city of Cienfuegos
- Exchange experiences gained from Green Maps and how to consolidate its national and territorial node to strengthen the work to support the fulfillment of The Tarea de Vida Project.
- Promote in a practical way how early childhood infants are included in The Tarea de Vida Project.
- Experiences in and practices of resilience in the face of climate change from Popular Education and its impact on subjects and their environments.
- Main factors that have slowed down or facilitated resilient practices in the face of climate change by communities.
- The socio-educational, ethical, and aesthetic values promoted by resilient practices in the face of climate change by communities.
- Challenges to improvement of Popular Education processes; to continue consolidating resilient processes from community education and the Tarea De Vida project.
- Creation and promotion of art from our socio-educational practices that reflect resilient processes from communities and the Tarea De Vida project.
- Challenges to, experiences and values of resilient practices in the face of climate change driven by youth as part of the Tarea de Vida Project.
- Challenges to, experiences and values of resilient processes in the face of climate change in communities from an inclusive education perspective.
- Experiences and challenges to the processes of preservation, conservation, and development of heritage, identity and culture of peace.
- Experiences and challenges fo Green Maps as an option for the diagnosis and preservation of natural and cultural heritage – tangible and intangible – from the communities.
- Poster
- Roundtable Discussions
- Audiovisual
- Visual Art
- Performing Dance
- Performance Art
Papers and presentations will be published in the digital memories of the event. Participants will take home digital copies of all the works presented including documentaries and audiovisuals.
IMPORTANT DATES
- March 30, 2024 – Abstract and Proposal Deadline
- April 10, 2024 – Deadline for Submissions for Publication
- April 10, 2024 – Registration Deadline
- April 30, 2024 – US Delegates Travel to Cuba
- May 2, 2024 – Meeting Begins
- May 6, 2024 – Meeting Ends
- May 7, 2024 – US Delegates Return to the United States
This Workshop will be presented in Spanish with English Interpretation
As a delegate, you will fly into Cuba then travel three hours to the City of Cienfuegos, declared a UNESCO World Heritage City in 2005. Also, known as the Pearl of the South, Cienfuegos sits on the Caribbean coast and will be your backdrop for the week when you participate in Cuba TIES. Click here to learn more about the City of Cienfuegos.
This workshop brings together educational leadership, researchers, and even diplomats to share experiences strengthening bonds and partnerships. International Cuba partnerships are built and grown here. This is your chance to learn from counterparts in your field. You’ll also do it in some of the planet’s most unique settings.
Experience your week while living with a host family in their private residence. Your hosts will prepare breakfast for you each morning. Living in a home as a guest of the family will anchor you within the community.
The lessons you learn will extend far beyond the conference room. Our cultural exchanges will plug you into the community. You’ll learn from NGO’s trying to make a difference in daily life. Our full time schedule of activities are designed to make you feel like you’ve lived 6 months in 6 days.
WHO IS PAULO FREIRE?
“It’s evident that the problems related to education are not just pedagogical problems. They are also political, ethical
and economic problems.”
– Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire (Brazil 1921-1997) was the creator of a philosophical school of thought known as Critical Pedagogy. He elaborated the notion of Popular Education, which situates education in the context of class struggle and socio-political transformation. Popular in this sense refers to education belonging to and coming from the people themselves, rather than to an elite group of educators who pass knowledge down to others. Freire believed that people should be empowered to educate themselves rather than be passive recipients of an educational product. This dialectic model created forms of alternative education for working class people and peasants, allowing them to use education as a tool to resist existing structures of oppression and bring about social change.
Freire’s landmark book, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), posited that both teachers and students must be aware of the politics that surround education so that students can understand how the educational system supports the status-quo and, in many cases, perpetuates social injustice. Students must be empowered to think critically and question established practices so that they are taking an active part in their own educational process. He critiques the “culture of silence” that rewards people for remaining silent when faced with social and political contradictions, especially those having to do with race and class. Empowering the people to speak negates the idea that they are unfortunate victims unable to help themselves. Freire claimed that it’s not up to society to save people who are marginalized but, rather, to open a space for them to participate actively in the construction of a more just world.
Freire’s work has had a global impact and has influenced the development of educational models and community outreach programs around the world. He advanced the notion that education should be based on mutual respect between the educator and students, and should allow for dialogue and praxis. What students learn in the classroom must be applied to what they do in daily life, so that education becomes a tool for reshaping reality. The curriculum must be modified to allow for critical examination and change. He challenged educators to move away from the idea that education is merely a transfer of information. Instead, they should teach in a way that encourages students to experience “real acts of knowing.” Much of what we know today as university extension programs reflects Freire’s belief that education never ends. Whether people are enrolled in courses for credit or for their own personal enrichment, they should feel empowered to use their education in ways that will transform the world they live in.
REGISTER NOW
Get your proposal in before the deadline! The proposal deadline is March 30, 2023.
We have made registration and submission of your presentation proposal easy. Complete the registration form below and you’ll start the process.
When you begin to register be sure to have available:
- Copy of Your Passport
- Your Presentation Proposal, if applicable in Word or Adobe PDF format
All proposals can be submitted and presented in Spanish or in English.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words plus 5 keywords. Your thematic area can be related to any of the Workshop Themes. The first page of your proposal should include the following data:
- Title of Presentation
- Modality
- Paper to Be Published, If Any
- Thematic Area
- Full Names of All Authors including academic degree and institution
- Full Name of Main Contact
- Main Contact Telephone
- Main Contact Phone Number
- Main Contact Country
The abstract should include a justification for the work, the general objective, theoretical approach, methodology, and research results (if applicable).
Plenary lecture proposals should be submitted as soon as possible. They will be evaluated by the scientific committee on a rolling basis. Proposals selected by the committee will receive an official invitation to be a plenary speaker. Proposals must be sent in digital format to CubaPrograms@CivitasGES.com. The first page of the abstract should include: Title of the paper, Authors’ data: Names and surnames, affiliation(s), (when different, indicate with consecutive numerical superscripts), address, country of origin, and e-mail.
Posters should have dimensions of no more than 90 centimeters (36 inches) vertical x 60 centimeters (24 inches) horizonal.
Posters must contain:
Title of the research, authors’ data (names and surnames, institutional affiliation, e-mail, country), an abstract, justification, general objective, theoretical approach, methodology and results of the research.
Posters can be in English, Spanish, or both.
Files should be in an mp4 format no more than 15 minutes in length. They must contain: Title of the research, Author’s data (names and surnames, institutional affiliation, e-mail, country). Complete audiovisual work must be submitted by the deadline for proposals.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT US
- Dra.C. Bárbara Bermúdez Monteagudo
- bmonteagudo@ucf.cf.rimed.cu
- +53 5416 6996
- Dr.C. Mariano Isla Guerra
- maislaguerra@gmail.com
- +53 5416 7231
REGISTRATION FORM
PROGRAM COST
THE REGISTRATION FEE INCLUDES:
- Accreditation for the Event
- Certificate of Participation (Digital Only for Online Participants)
- Transportation for the Community Visits (Only for In-Person Participants)
- Digital Copy of the Event Proceedings and presentations
*US Travelers: Do Not Pay the Registration Fee Separately. The Registration Fee is included in the travel program.
TRAVEL PROGRAM FOR US DELEGATES
Civitas Global Educational Services offers a travel program for all delegates from the United States looking to participate in compliance with the US Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Civitas GES has been building Cuba-US partnerships and facilitating programs for US institutions since 2014. A portion of the proceeds from the travel program will be used to provide logistical support for Cubans from other provinces to attend in-person. All US delegates will have the support of our resident coordinators through out the experience.
All invoicing and payments are processed by Squareup.com. All initial deposits for this program are non-refundable. The deposit counts towards the full cost of the program. Click here to view our full terms and conditions.
$2,410.00
USD
ONCE YOU HAVE PAID THE DEPOSIT, YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INVOICE FROM CIVITAS GES FOR THE TRAVEL PROGRAM COST LESS THE DEPOSIT PAID.
- Roundtrip Airfare from Miami to Cuba
- Cuba Entry Visa
- Conference Registration
- Access to All Program Events and Activities
- Access to Pre-Conference Sessions
- Ground Transportation to and From Cuban Airports
- Welcome Dinner for International Delegates
- 7-Nights Stay in Private Accommodations
- Breakfast Included Each Morning
- Lunch on Each Day of the Conference
- Cuba Health and Repatriation Insurance
- English Speaking Guides
Logistical services for US travelers are provided solely by Civitas Global Educational Services in full compliance with the United States Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control. Click here to see the full OFAC Regulations related to travel to Cuba.
Contact Us
TRAVEL PROGRAM FOR NON-US DELEGATES
NON-US DELEGATES MAY CONTACT CUBATUR TO MAKE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS
- Lic. Damaris Lorite Agüero. Agencia CUBATUR. La Habana
- eventosgira2014@gmail.com
- (+53) 7 835 41 13