The Study Group on Education in Prison GESEC(SGEP) is composed of teachers, professionals and students of anthropology, sociology, media, law, psychology and pedagogy. Commenced operations on October 4, 2002, in the city of La Plata.
Mission:
The GESEC is a nongovernmental organization that promotes human rights and promotes the right to education and access to the culture of the people living in areas of confinement in the framework of Human Rights to work for quality education and access to everyone, analyzing the context of confinement from a multidisciplinary approach.
THE GESEC comprised of students and professionals with humanist thought, whose promotion and training activities have an emphasis on education topics, prison, human rights and the right to education as the prime mover to think of a more equitable world, not only from the from the formal but substantial. Recognizing the situation of vulnerable groups, including detainees.
THE GESEC contributes to the debate about education, justice, jail and civil society actors from a viewpoint of human rights.
Founding Principles GESEC (SGEP)
- Human rights as the only guarantee of a decent life project for vulnerable groups, in particular, persons deprived of liberty.
- The right to education as a key that allows the right and enjoyment of other human rights.
- The enjoyment of culture as humanistic construction space
- Interdisciplinary research and training as critical support for action in commitment to the most vulnerable sectors of society
- The protection of equal opportunities and educational fact actors.
- The full conviction in the democratic system.
- Respect for the law and legality.
- Non-discrimination
- The generous participation and solidarity.
- The ethical commitment to action on the basis of human dignity that posit human rights.
Lines of work:
a) The interdisciplinary research to systematize practical knowledge about public education of the persons deprived of liberty.
b) promoting public education of persons deprived of freedom in both the prison and outside.
c) Teacher training specific to the field of education in prison.
Who directs the GESEC (SGEP)
a) / as teachers in the area of education who work in the detention of Argentina and the rest of
Latin America.
b) State agencies, academic institutions, researchers, NGOs and civil society related to education in prisons.
c) The prison population that participates in the formal educational activity.
Actions
a) Develop consulting, research on the theoretical-academic education in prisons, this includes:-aulic systematization of experiences and institutional, implementation and evaluation of projects related to social areas, theories about specific aspects related to education in prisons
b) Participate in the preparation of reports, academic texts and draft legislation on the lines of his work and designs and delivers training workshops to universities in the country and Latin America to address the jail, education and human rights, the three conceptual interrelated.
c) Designing, producing and editing publications, these include: website development, newsletters, videos, documents, dossiers, books on specific topics related to education in prisons, making materials.
d) Conclusion of agreements municipal, provincial, national and international in pursuit of developing, implementing and evaluating projects
e) Organization of seminars, conferences, lectures, symposia, organizing teacher training programs, communication and exchanges of papers electronically, - agreements with other NGOs and government agencies related to education in prisons and the right to education . Including the quarterly seminar "Education, Prison and Human Rights" and the conference "The intervention of the University in areas of confinement"
Members:
Francisco Scarf
Brief curriculum vitae
• Graduate and Professor in Educational Sciences, UNLP. • Master of the Masters in Human Rights Human Rights Institute of the School of Cs. Law from the UNLP. • specialist teachers in primary education. Teachers specializing in Adolescent and Adult Education. • General Teaching Adult Basic Education in jails since 1992. • Currently teaching and EGBA secretary N ° 721, U. P. N ° 34, La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires • Coordinator and lecturer of the seminar-workshop on "Education in the deprivation of liberty" in its seventh edition in Argentina and Bolivia and Mexico. • Visiting Consultant, Interamerican Institute of Human Rights, Costa Rica and the International Institute of Human Rights (IHRLI) of De Paul University in Chicago, IL, USA. • Permanent Consultant of the German Association for Adult Education, German NGO in Bolivia. • Trainer in Argentina's RPI (Penal Reform International, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean). • President of GESEC (Study Group on Education in Prison) and Coordinator of University Commission on Public Education in Prisons (Ministry of University Extension-UNLP). • Advisor Education in prisons in the Prison Attorney's Office. • Participation in several courses, workshops and seminars on education in prisons nationwide, Latin American and European.
Marianela Perafan
Albertina Inda
Victoria Dapello
Daiana Kolman
Julieta Barrios
Eugenia Mellado
Florencia Perez Lalli
Ricardo Bizarro
Juliana Arens
Noelia Ferreira
Ana Vega
Juliana Gardinetti
Favia Leoz
Collaborators:
Ma del Carmen Cosentino
Mariela Pérez Lalli
Ramiro Riera
Raul Salinas
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