ALTERNATIVE DOCTORATE OF POPULAR AND TRANSFORMING ECONOMIES
DIRECTOR:
VIRGELINA CHARÁ
SEWING UNION. UNIVERSITY OF GOOD LIVING.
UNIVERSITY OF EARTH AND MEMORY ORLANDO FALS BORDA
Justification
Transforming economies include all non-capitalist economies that without exploiting the labor of others, respecting nature and socioeconomic diversity in responsible production processes, equitable distribution, multi-reciprocal exchange, generate changes in their territories to live and improve their communities. The other economies can be social, supportive, circular, blue, popular, community but they are all transformative.
The imminent crisis of neoliberalism as a manifestation of a system that does not respond to the realities and needs of social life, has exposed the inefficiency to meet the basic needs of communities and workers, exacerbating poverty and socioeconomic inequality, as a result of unbridled production and consumption, which is characteristic of capitalism, making evident the rupture of the environmental, social and political balance, necessary for life. Aspects that lead to the search for new economic alternatives that account for sustainability and the development of capacities that allow a dignified life (Cattani, 2004), in such a way that it is of vital importance to generate training processes that clarify these processes and allow to the new economic dynamics, to give new meaning to the concept of transforming economies from different visions and experiences worldwide, coming to integrate into the process the cultural component framed from the social reality that allows a critical analysis for the evaluation of political proposals and the recognition the contribution of this economy to local development.
Path of educational conversations
The Alternative PhD in Popular and Transformational Economies is a training and research process at the same time, where the processes investigated transcend specific disciplines and are based on a broad spectrum of participation characterized by systematic cooperation with scholars, students, and professors.
Declarative knowledge – saying things, or reading things that others said – must give way to knowledge of values and procedural knowledge. Participation and collective action, in groups, in assembly, in meetings of two students must debate ideas, emotions and practices, to be able to analyze them and incorporate them into a systematization process.
What changed in our practice? It is based on different knowledge, neighborhood, ancestral, provincial that are precisely those considered residual for not being within the conventional canons. Our practice is based on knowledge learned from practice, born with experience. From disciplinary methods to participatory and transdisciplinary methodologies, that is, recognizing the importance of transdisciplinarity as a new form of learning and problem solving that involves cooperation between different groups of organizations and movements and academia to face the complex challenges of socioeconomics.
What is the Alternative Doctorate in Popular and Transformative Economies?
The Alternative Doctorate in Popular and Transformative Economies is an higher education proposal alternative to the capitalist economic system. It does not belong to conventional formal education.
Coordination
Coordinate and certify: Union of Seamstresses. University of Good Living. University of Earth and Memory Orlando Fals Borda.
Director
The director is Virgelina Chará.
Aim
The objective of the Doctorate in Popular and Transformative Economies is training and research from territorial practices to formulate, investigate and solve problems with epistemological support of good living from the field of socioeconomic research.
Conclusion
It is studied in Living Classrooms, that is, the classrooms are where socioeconomics is produced, they can be the Fair, the Milpa, the Huerta, the Monte, Ethical Finance, Multitrueke, Social Currencies, the WSF, recovered companies, art workshops, spaces for self-management, associativism and Solidarity Social Economy. There are also virtual training processes and monthly Dialogue Circles.
Conditions for Entry
Any person who carries out socioeconomic practices that has participation in experiences, can enter the Doctorate. The condition is thatTo want to learn from practice, to enter you should not have to have completed any higher education course such as a master's degree or a degree, it is not exclusive either.
Work methodology
Modality: Collective-Collaborative. The Doctorate has investigative training activities not separated from experiences. Inspired by Paulo Freire's popular education, teaching and learning is part of the same teaching-learning process. The students and the teachers teach and learn at the same time. The knowledgeable men and women are professors of the teaching-learning process, they are authorities who bear millennial knowledge of indigenous, afro-descendant, and peasant communities, knowledgeable from the experience of their practices. They also accompany educators and conventional teachers.
Training/research activities
They comprise 4 periods of four months, of 240 hours each, corresponding to the organization of the 2 years study plan. The training activities in the classrooms / experiences must be completed and there must also be a virtual Zoom meeting on a monthly basis, in dialogue with all the living PhD classrooms.
The training/research paths are diverse, varied, they all start from doing, the contents are not outside the group, where you can learn to barter, learn the right price, you can learn to organize solidarity loans, to produce agroecology, to organize ethical finance, to build a document magazine to communicate what we are doing,
The curricular design is a priority of each Living Class, space from where the educational design is built. The Contents, methodologies, didactics of the Living Class of Ethical Finances will be different from the Agroecology Living Class or the Bioconstruction Living Class because the living forces of each classroom are built by knowledge, practices, emotions, networks, organizations that are already weaving a web which now has epistemological recognition given that the territories, in addition to culture, produce science.
This design is only for those who need a model to start from 👇
Curricular Mesh Proposal with Dialogue Circles
8 Stages of the Doctorate
Diagnostic stage: Organization of the alternative doctorate group identification of living classrooms, identification/registration of students and teachers.
Pre-design stage: Preliminary documents, organizational sketches, meetings of the organizing group.
Disclosure stage: Interviews, publications, magazines.
Presentation Stage: National and international official presentations.
Design stage: Correct and rewrite initial documents.
Student/teacher training stage: About what the doctorate is, how it is studied, with what forms, methodology, evaluation.
Execution stage: Doctorate course begins.
evaluation stage: Evaluation in process, dialogical circles, feedback of strengths and weaknesses.
Here 👇
It is for those who want to put proposals 👉🏿 and leave them in writing
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