Hello bricos,

Following this old thread...
really following it.

I want to share with you a post I made directly related to it.

I founded amazing Vicky's post and Juha's link. So I found an experience in
Colombia...

http://paulav.net/2012/01/04/trabajo-de-campo-siguiendo-la-pista-a-barefoot-college/

Let me know what do you think about it. I have still questions... maybe it
is an isolated case.

Paula

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>
> Also about the Barefoot college - their work is truly amazing,
> I learned about them a couple of years ago from Annemie Maes
> (from OKNO) who has made several projects about their work.
> She has interviewed some of the women who were going
> through the training, videos are online at:
> http://opengreens.net/category/politicsofchange/barefootcollege
>
> Best,
>
> Juha.
>
> On Nov 1, 2011, at 13:28 , James Wallbank wrote:
>
> Hi Vicky, thanks for posting this link.
>
> One thing in particular which Bunker Roy said got me thinking - that men
> were difficult to train:
>
> One lesson we learned in India was men are untrainable. (Laughter) Men are
> restless, men are ambitious, men are compulsively mobile, and they all want
> a certificate. (Laughter) All across the globe, you have this tendency of
> men wanting a certificate. Why? Because they want to leave the village and
> go to a city, looking for a job.
>
>
> This got me thinking about certification and qualifications, with relation
> to Access Space. Recently we've been investigating the possibilities for
> developing our own, alternative qualifications, as a way to assert and
> celebrate the value of people's achievements - but also, of course, as a
> way to help us access funding.
>
> One of Access Space's core objectives is "the relief of unemployment" - we
> interpret this to mean assisting with the social, cultural and economic
> regeneration of Sheffield. (Whether unemployment is "relieved" by being
> reduced, or by being made more positive and meaningful, is another
> question.)
>
> We have always maintained that a purpose of coming to Access Space may be
> to learn how to do something. Not to get a certificate showing that you can
> do it, but to actually be able to do it.
>
> What is a certificate? It's value encapsulated in paper - a form of money.
> It's a way that you can assert to strangers that you are expert in a
> particular field, and have them believe you. A certificate is a mechanism
> for you to export your expertise.
>
> By this understanding, therefore, is certificated training actually
> antagonisitic towards local development? What local development requires is
> that LOCAL people become more skilled, and exercise those skills IN THEIR
> NEIGHBORHOOD. Not do what lots of people do, which is grab the certificate,
> and get the hell out.
>
> In Sheffield, the only game in town is "urban regeneration". The city has
> had structural economic problems every since the shutdown of the UK coal
> industry and the technological changes in steel making. (Now steel is made
> by robots, not people.) Is the best move for young graduates simply "away"?
> (If you'd like a laugh, check out the Regen School:
> http://www.regenschool.com/ )
>
> This got me thinking about mobility - what may be good for the individual
> (lots of options, high mobility, opportunities) may be bad for the
> collective, which needs skilled, motivated experts to STAY PUT and BUILD -
> not make a quick getaway.
>
> So how many of us Bricos are working in communities where the work is
> hard, and the opportunities are scarce? And how many are ambitious, highly
> qualified and compulsively mobile, making their own way in the world
> without making an impact on places and real-world communities? Is the
> tension between localism and academia a key
>
> I guess that most of us are somewhere in-between - we try to apply our
> expertise in localities, despite the facts that we have opportunities to
> move on.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Warm wishes to all!
>
> James
> =====
>
> On 30/10/11 00:55, victoria sinclair wrote:
>
>
>
> sorry everyone
> i would not post this if it didn't seem to be something that would yield
> some reactions
>
>
> love from sunny brasil, and link is
>
> http://www.ted.com/talks/bunker_roy.html
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