Conjunto de datos del proyecto de investigación EduCommon [Dataset of EduCommon Research Project]

The main objective of EduCommon is to set up a dialogue between the discourse of "the commons" (Federici, 2020; Barbagallo, Beiret, & Harvie, 2019) and the tradition of Popular Education in Latin America (Freire, 1980; Puiggrós, 2016) on the basis of a qualitative empirical study on the experience of Bachilleratos Populares in Argentina. This proposal emerges from the observation of the commonalities between the proposals of “the commons” and this experience: (i) they focus on social spaces that are neither public -understanding “the public” as the state- nor private -understanding “the private” as the market-, but on citizen participation; (ii) they are inspired by models of grassroots democracy that go beyond the liberal-capitalist model of democracy; (iii) they focus on equality; (iv) they explore points of intersection between “the public-state” and “the common”, understood as the grassroots democratic practices that occur at the community-local level.

The dataset is composed of: 41 interviews with educators of bachilleratos populares in the city of Buenos Aires (36 interviews), state managers of the Ministry of Education of the City of Buenos Aires (4 interviews), and one interview with a founding member of the first bachillerato popular in the province of Buenos Aires.