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Presented by Mariya P Ivancheva on 7/10/23 for Debt Collective's Jubilee School, part of our Rethinking and Reinventing Higher Education Series
Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, The Alternative University outlines the origins and day-to-day functioning of the colossal effort of late President Hugo Chávez’s government to create a university that challenged national and global higher education norms. The session will commence with reading from the book and outlining some of its main themes. It will then open a dialogue with participants about some of the lessons that the book carries and challenges that the Venezuelan experiment poses to the possibility of revolutionary change in higher education.
More info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school
Sign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
Presented by Mariya P Ivancheva on 7/10/23 for Debt Collective's Jubilee School, part of our Rethinking and Reinventing Higher Education Series
Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, The Alternative University outlines the origins and day-to-day functioning of the colossal effort of late President Hugo Chávez’s government to create a university that challenged national and global higher education norms. The session will commence with reading from the book and outlining some of its main themes. It will then open a dialogue with participants about some of the lessons that the book carries and challenges that the Venezuelan experiment poses to the possibility of revolutionary change in higher education.
More info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school
Sign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
