For the project "Education,
Biography and Movement(s). Education processes in the landless movement and
refuse collection initiatives in Brazil between personal reference and social
conditions", Benjamin Bunk receives a Feodor Lynen research fellowship of
15 months by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
The aim of the project is to
further explore and to show the educational significance of social movements,
following previous work. The project is part of the study of international
movements and at the same time a contribution to the establishment of a new
field in education science. The interdisciplinary approach of the project is
fundamentally aimed at linking the theory of education and socialization
theories by means of the methodological reconstruction of educational processes
and biographies in movements. The project is initially located in a regional,
Latin-American context. However, this also results from a post-colonial
critique of the place and the tradition from which current knowledge production
takes place - opening up the possibility of contrasting global with local
phenomena and ways of thinking.
In essence, the research project
examines the question of how subjects are formed in social movements. More
precisely, how do self-relationships, world-understandings, and
world-conditions transform and / or transform themselves into movements and to
what extent does this play a role for the bio-graphic development? At the same
time, it can be assumed that educational processes are different under
conditions of change and that protest movements are therefore special
socialization areas. Since, from a subject-centric perspective, personal
relationship contrasted with movement varies and changes in the life-history as
well as the social conditions for educational processes in movements differ. Research
will focus on method-oriented case studies, related to ‘movement’, ‘movements’
and their regional embedding and a typology worked out. The main research target
is the landless movement (Movimento dos Sem Terra, MST) as well as three local
rubbish collector initiatives (Catadores de Papel, CdP) in Brazil.
As of June 2017, a research stay of
12 months in Brazil (host: Prof. Dr. Emil Sobottka) is planned, followed by up
to three months in Finland (host: Prof. Dr. Teivo Teivainen). The project is
integrated into the educational research network ‘Education and Social Movement’
and the Max Weber Center at the University of Erfurt and the interdisciplinary
project ‘Local politicization of global norms’.
