New Public Resistance
Recent months have seen a range of protests in different Western countries. In Greece, Spain, England and now Wall Street, the streets have been full of people protesting, showing their resistance: resistance towards the distribution of resources; resistance towards the lack of democracy in modern decision making; resistance towards structural and institutional changes. But how is this resistance to be understood? And which educational, institutional and pedagogical lessons can be drawn from these resistance movements? This is the conceptual framework for the next CONCRIT conference in Barcelona, May 2012.

The conference will take place in Barcelona starting at 6pm on Friday 18 May and finishing on Sunday 20 at 3pm. It is a participatory conference and workshops will develop according to participants’ own ideas, interests, short inputs that they want to make, group work and any visits that they care to make. The conference will be outdoors in a public space and the venue is yet to be announced. There is no cost for participation at the conference. You can start your participation now by logging on to our Facebook site where you can begin developing themes and identifying issues that you would like to discuss, share or contribute to the conference.

CONCRIT is a network of practitioners, students, educators, researchers, employees in local authorities, NGOs, trade union activists, artists and others with an interest in and knowledge of children, young people and adults. The network is concerned with their welfare and the educational and social policy and practice that affect them.

Read more about the conference and CONCRIT here.