Community-based management of environmental challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

An exploratory and descriptive case study of the experiences of secondary learners at a community-based learning center on the Caribbean coast in Latin America, this study explores how the Casa Morpho Community of Learners (CoL) model met the socio-emotional (SEL) and literacy needs of adolescents within various virtual environments during the quarantine in Costa Rica. Using lesson plans, teachers' reflective notes, and a developed Learners reflective survey, the following questions were addressed: 1) How did Casa Morpho's curriculum support learners in virtual environments, and with their SEL and literacy needs during the COVID-19 pandemic? 2) What practices were used and how do learners perceive those experiences?

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Innovative community-based ecosystem management for dengue and Chagas disease prevention in low and middle income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ◽

10.1093/trstmh/tru201 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 109 (2) ◽

pp. 89-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

J. Finkelman

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Disease Prevention ◽

Chagas Disease ◽

Ecosystem Management ◽

Community Based ◽

Middle Income ◽

Middle Income Countries ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Low And Middle Income

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Educação popular de base comunitária e pedagogia do comum: memória, trajetória e desafios

Cadernos CIMEAC ◽

10.18554/cimeac.v10i3.4915 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 118

Author(s):

Jorge Osorio Vargas

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Popular Education ◽

Community Based ◽

The Caribbean ◽

America Latina

O artigo é parte de um projeto do autor que, ao lado de educadores e educadoras da América Latina e do Caribe, pretende recuperar a memória da educação popular e seus critérios de análise acerca da trajetória como educadores e educadoras dos núcleos problemáticos do itinerário histórico-pedagógico dos organizadores de educação popular de base comunitária. A partir dessa perspectiva textual-biográfica são retomados, conforme os critérios do autor, os novos signos que ressignificam a educação popular em uma pedagogia do comum.Palavras-chave: Educação popular; Educação comunitária; Pedagogias; Biograficidade. ABSTRACT: This article is part of the author's project that together with educators from Latin America and the Caribbean intend to recover their memory about popular educacion and their analysis criteria about their trajectory as educators, and the problematic knots of the historical-pedagogical itinerary of community-based popular education organizations. According to the author's criteria, from this biographical perspective the new signs re-signify popular education as a pedagogy of the common.Keywords: Popular education; Communitarian education; Pedagogies; Biograficity.

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