A-Infos (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.

https://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/
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