World Education Forum

[edu]

The Free Software Foundation Europe will participate to the World 
Education Forum, that will be held next 24-27 October in Porto 
Alegre, Brasil. Cf. http://www.forummundialdeeducacao.com.br/.

There it will present libre software and the GNU project, in both 
aspects of a new technological possibility for education, and a 
cultural project of sharing the knowledge with guaranteeing  .

The Free Software Foundation Europe calls the Libre Software 
community to propose any kind of contributions:

1) before August 28:
Articles: a first collection of articles will be included within the 
final officiel report of the World Education Forum. They will to 
arrive to FSFE before 28 of August. They will be read by professional 
of education sector that will discover for the first time the GNU 
project, and thus must be technically easy to understand. Articles 
will be preferably not longer than 4500 letters (around 3 pages), and 
can related to one of the following themas (for example debates 
2,5,6,12). Interested people for writing articles can let FSFE know 
their intention from now.

2) before October 5
Another collection of articles will be distributed during the Forum. 
Same caracteristics. Also in preparation, a cd-rom: any sugggestion 
of texts, softwares or video welcome.

3) from now to the Forum, the website of FSFE will develop webpages 
about Education, through http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/edu. Call 
to volunteers for the website.


Raphael Calvelli

contact: address@hidden
(this call for paper will be sent again after the holidays.)

Themes of the forum:

EDUCATION AS A RIGHT
Thematic Debate I - Structural adjusts and balance of the planetary 
educational apartheid
Thematic Debate II - Public Management of the educational system: 
macropolitics, decentralization and autonomy in a democratic society.
Thematic Debate III - Education and exclusion politics: the denial of 
the childhood's rights.

EDUCATION, WORK AND TECHNOLOGY
Thematic Debate IV: Workers in education, their practice and their 
identity facing the challenges of contemporary days
Thematic Debate V: Education, Technology and Work: employment, unemployment and
formation politics
Thematic Debate VI: University, production of knowledge and 
international distribution of work

EDUCATION AND CULTURES
Thematic Debate VII: Education, daily pertaining to school and 
segregation politics
Thematic Debate VIII: School as a public space: different contexts, 
human demands and curriculum
Thematic Debate IX: Education, citizenship and Social Violence

EDUCATION, TRANSFORMATION AND UTOPIAS
Thematic Debate X: Education as a resistance space: social and 
syndical movements
Thematic Debate XI: Cities as political subjects and educational spaces
Thematic Debate XII: Education, human sustainability and emancipation