Fight as a school? Knowledge and learning in process es of struggle and neighborhood organization in Mendoza, Argentina during 1970

Abstract

Can we analyze the historical experiences of struggle and organization as practices that produce knowledge and learning? Is it possible, then, to think about collective action, in its various manifestations, as an alternative educational process? From these questions, this article tries to give an account of the educational dimension of an experience of struggle and neighborhood organization that took place in Mendoza, Argentina, after the alluvium of January 1970. We identify the knowledge and learning that were generated in the process, as well as some elements of the political culture that was being constructed in the dialectic domination and resistance. Although in this process learning occurs both in those who hold power, and in those who, through their collective action, question it, here we focus on the learning of the latter, based on an investigation that used oral and documentary sources, taking as references the contributions of Maria da Glória Gohn and Edward Thompson.