WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FdCA, IL CANTIERE #39 - The Michel-Ferrer Collective (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 A year and a half ago, a group of comrades founded a teachers' and

educators' collective dedicated to libertarian pedagogy between Livorno
and Pisa. The collective's name is Michel-Ferrer (dedicated to the
revolutionaries and educators Louise Michel and Francisco Ferrer y
Guardia). The collective, in addition to meeting regularly once a week
from September to June, has already produced two newsletters, published
by "il cantiere" as supplements.
The chosen title is Yakamoz: a Turkish word meaning "the reflection of
the moon on water."
An inspiration for reflections on public schools.
Yakamoz and the Michel-Ferrer Pedagogical Collective are an experience
that, while inspired by anarchist-communist principles, remains independent.
A bit of history
The Collective was born about a year ago from the awareness of an
initial core group of teachers we met through our joint work with the
FLC-CGIL in Pisa and Livorno.
With them, we began to develop an engagement program on concrete
teaching issues in schools of all levels, starting with distance
learning, bullying, the penetration of militarism into the school
system, the condition of buildings and the staff who live and work in
various capacities in public schools-namely, teachers, educators,
students, auxiliary, technical, and administrative staff, and anyone
interested in any way in teaching issues. The reference to libertarian
pedagogy was obvious to us, but with some important differences that
separate us from the ideological approach typical of contemporary
anarchism and beyond, which abstractly resolves itself into
anti-authoritarianism, experimentalism, and educationalism. These are
concepts that we share, but which cannot be simple testimony. They must
be placed within the concrete and collective reality of education, as an
instrument of capital and therefore not extraneous to social conflict,
to identify its problems, its limits, and its delays. Therefore, our
area of intervention is the public school system, as an entity to be
defended in order to connect with the subjects that comprise it and,
inevitably, with their contradictions, which we confront. We are not
interested in creating networks of alternative and antagonistic
counterculture, but in raising awareness for a unified intervention in
reality. From this perspective, it is also inevitable to consider the
trade union dimension, as disputes and contractual agreements determine
the quality of education.
In the Collective, some belong to the CGIL (the Italian General
Confederation of Labour) in its majority and minority branches, others
to Cobas and Unicobas, and others to no trade unions, but discussions
are always calm and aimed at identifying unified solutions. The two
issues of the Yakamoz Bulletin are the product of this process we are
undertaking, which allows for absolutely free participation.

In keeping with this approach, we are pleased to host a reflection by a
comrade active in the collective.

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