By Alfabetiza Team | Project Coordinators
Every year we have the joy of receiving new volunteers in the project ¡Alfabetiza! This early February was no exception, since we started with about 40 new people interested in the project and in the topic of education. We have conformed a diverse group made up of high school students, students of different college degrees as Pedagogy, Communication, Geography, International Relations, Political Science and Philosophy, as well as by people already with a career.
We started the pre-campaign (the first project period) with a series of reflections and debates on education and social development. A team of experienced people in the literacy campaign gave an overall description of the project to the new volunteers. Furthermore, we talked some more about San Jose Corral Blanco, locality where we will live this summer for the second consecutive year.
So far we have had discussions of our concept of education and of the successes and shortcomings of the educational system in Mexico in particular. Also, we have deliberated upon the role that teachers and students have in an educational process. Moreover, we introduced the theoretical and practical proposal of the Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire in which much of our educational concept and practice is based.
To organize ourselves, we divided our job into four areas:
a) Resources, responsible for the organization of fundraising activities and resource management.
b) Community, whose job is to plan projects or community workshops.
c) Classes, is dedicated to train how to teach, as well as teaching strategies.
d) Future, which has the task of presenting a work proposal for San Jose Corral Blanco in 2017. This proposal could involve ¡Alfabetiza! in connection with other projects.
As you can see, we began the year with new volunteers, new ideas and new proposals; this excites us and generates great expectations. In addition, we are eager to return to San Jose Corral Blanco, where we have created emotional ties with the people, bonds that last more than one summer.
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