South-South Educational experiences. Dialogues and exchanges through time

LAURA EFRON

cape town

Simposio; South-South Educational Collaboration & Knowledge Interchange Initiative: South Africa/Africa/The Caribbean/Latin America; 2016

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

As Paul Gilroy (1993) explains, the Atlantic Ocean has been a space of particular historical exchanges and creation of complex cultures and identities; this knowledge then cannot be linked into one continent or the other, it´s a transatlantic production. The initial point of that exchange and new creation was the Slave Trade. Nevertheless, it kept developing through time. The aim of this paper is to make a historical review of the exchanges of alternative ideas and educational practices in the South Atlantic during the 20th century and to reflect on the importance of the South-South dialogues in an actual context in which the educational systems are in crisis.