Starting in the year 2012, under the leadership of Mayor Daniel Jadue, the Municipality of Recoleta set out to implement a community management model that would allow for the reallocation of municipal resources, in order to guarantee basic goods and services from a rights-based perspective rather than a consumption-based one. In this context, in November 2018, the Open University of Recoleta (UAR) was born, a free municipal program based on popular education to promote the democratization of knowledge. Therefore, the research focuses on describing and analyzing the formulation and implementation of the UAR as a popular municipal program (2012-2020), through documentary review and the conducting of semi-structured interviews. Unique of its kind at a national level, the UAR represents an educational innovation that challenges paradigms and contributes to the study of local public policies, serving as a reference for other municipalist experiences in Chile.
Keywords:
Popular education, Public policies, Municipalism, Open University of Recoleta, Educational reform
Riquelme, C. (2024). Presentation minute. “Popular Education and Local Public Policies: A Case Study of the Open University of Recoleta.”. Revista Némesis, (19). Retrieved from https://revistapuntogenero.uchile.cl/index.php/RN/article/view/74143
