Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education & Training (CHET) in cooperation with the Department of Educational Studies present:
Germán Álvarez Mendiola
Visiting Professor at EDST, UBC
Professor at Center for Research and Advanced Studies
(Cinvestav), Mexico City
DATE:
March 4, 2015
TIME:
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
VENUE:
Ponderosa G. Lounge
2044 Lower Mall
This seminar will discuss the Chilean student movement for free higher education and the Mexican movements in the National Polytechnic Institute and the #AyotzinapaSomosTodos. After a brief conceptual reflection on the study of student movements, I distinguish those arising from internal causes, related to the educational field, and those arising from external causes related to general institutional life: the state, the law, corruption and violence. I will focus on the causes and nature of the claims; characteristics of leadership and organizational forms; and finally, 0n the forms of struggle of the movements.
For further information contact
joanne.oconnor@ubc.ca
Feel free to bring your lunch. Light refreshments will be provided.