We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
THE POPULAR ADMINISTRATION OF PORTO ALEGRE: INTEGRATING TRANSFORMATIVE PARTICIPATORY EDUCATION IN PUBLIC POLICY.
- Authors
Williams, Jonathan
- Abstract
This article examines the participatory budgeting and Citizen School initiatives pursued by the Popular Administration of Porto Alegre (1989-2005). Participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre became a model that cities around the world have sought to emulate, incurring expansive citizen participation and generating significant concrete improvements in urban life. The Citizen School initiative, meanwhile, led to dramatically reduced drop-out rates in elementary schools and transformed the pedagogical process and established power structures in education. We demonstrate that the Popular Administration's success was based in no small part on traditional 'policy-makers" pursuit of Freirean 'education for critical consciousness' techniques. Both projects were above all learning processes for community members and leaders in Porto Alegre; revolutionary from Freire's perspective.
- Subjects
PORTO Alegre (Brazil); BRAZIL; GOVERNMENT policy; CITIZEN participation in public administration; EDUCATION; POLITICAL planning; TRANSFORMATIVE learning
- Publication
Undercurrent, 2011, Vol 8, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
1712-0934
- Publication type
Article