Friars Seminary (Rapporteur) n-resume Rapporteur of the first discussion, held
Saturday October 9, 2010 :
1. To answer the question: What was
the Science and Society (PCyS), which originally occupied the space that eventually (in part) have been in the hands of the self-CEM (Sept-2010)?, proposed to read the document: "The Seminar of Frailes "(SF).
Background reading was proposed SF for these reasons:
a) The need to know the history of the Faculty of Sciences (FC), and the different actors who have contributed to its current configuration.
b) Two of the signatories of the SF were major builders PCyS: Brothers Cocho Gil.
c) Flavio said: "The SF PCyS is direct heir, but with a less dogmatic and more humane." The which already implies a balance of what was the PCyS, but also aspects of what it was ...
short, the PCyS was a collective effort to generate and carry out interdisciplinary scientific work further contribute to the transformation of Mexican society. Founded around 1974, where converged the wave of social transformation in the late sixties (1968, 1971, etc.), And from the beginning he was heavily involved with political struggles, labor, student, and questions the scientific work technical time.
Among his proposals, now transformed into administrative tools, are the departmental councils, and assemblies HR sector. (Details of these proposals is in the paper 3-see below-). Was accompanied at the time by self-governments of Economics, Architecture and democratic principals of CCH's ...
Among the topics for discussion that were addressed (and the document 2 is a good example of this) are:
a) the development of science and technology in the conditions of Mexico,
b) the relationship between science, ideology, culture and society,
c) the techno-scientific settings and educational alternatives in Latin America and prospective aspects of implementation.
2. Some references on the history of the Faculty of Sciences (FC-UNAM):
[Note: The classification is in the library of the FC, although there may be some other library copies of the UNAM]
to ) Revaluation
Social Science. Papers presented at the International Symposium on Science and Society organized by the Science and Society, Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, Dec. 1979. Edit coordinated by Francisco Javier Cepeda Flores. Q175.4 S55 1979
b)
The Prometheus in Mexico: Social roots and development of the Faculty of Sciences, UNAM 1867-1980. Master's thesis in history. Francisco Javier Cepeda Flores
Q183.4M63 U5434
c)
The transformation of the Mexican university and the case of propositions Faculty of Science and Society Program. 1977, brochure. (Soon we will have the digital version of it, ready for socialization-broadcast).
d) number of articles published in the journal Science
during the 80's, which would be pursued and compile ...
3. The story of "Seminar of the Friars'
The document was written in 1999, back in October, and part was one of the unintended effects of the strike-UNAM CGH. It was published in that year Excelsior newspaper
. After the establishment of the Autonomous Oxymoron
Seminar (theory of complex systems and networks), also the end product of the strike of CGH, we collected some materials and other political culture ... One of the first material, which provided guidance to the collective work was the SF. The work of the Seminar
Oxymoron intended socialize through a website, and various editions of the notebooks as part of Gepah-DNZ, and some materials were made available to the international site
Rebellion.
By the way, you can download SF in another format, but electronic site:
www.rebelion.org/docs/7329.pdf 4. General conclusions difficult task condense the discussion that took place on Saturday, but perhaps very soon, the substantive issue raised in the SF is this:
The search for concrete ways to confront the capitalist civilizational crisis all levels, and is proposing that we close at hand. 5. Considerations group dynamics I perceive a number of characteristics of collective space under construction
:
* is required appreciate the potentialities of the group, but also be clear in their capabilities, limitations (the absence of peers in this session was because they did not read, I believe, and we also know that there is a tendency not to read or to write, write. ..)
* the group is focused on education, with all the aspects involved, mechanisms of exclusion, teaching, pedagogy, power relations in the classroom, simulation mechanisms ... and
have to decide if there is left, or expands or shrinks ... * perceive that education is considered as a major factor of change (or even the only), and which necessarily have to indicate their limitations, we must also be explicit risk techno-criticism and (counter, retro nostalgia
new age, ethical, environmental ...)
6. Outstanding items collective discussion (an attempt to list):
A. forms of organization. Topic bulk of debate, discussion and definition, at various times and various scales.
Case study: Risks of Activism
and theorization. Proposition peremptory: emphasis on action, but taking care of the organizational ...
need for a balance of what has been done for some time now, to ponder what has been fulfilled in the slogan, free public education, scientific, critical, popular, for the majority ...
B. Problem definition (identity
) Collective History
immediate expulsion of the split-space of the FC ... Diagnosis
-evaluation of the impact of our actions, views and magnification ...
What are the objectives of short, medium and long term that we gather, why and for what.
I think this is what I could salvage from my memory about what we discussed. Of course, we welcome the clarification and attachments to the above written ...
Chau,
Pableone
