Resumen de Public policy and citizen participation: eight tensions of popular education advocacy
During the year that is coming to a close, the main issue being discussed at a national level in Chile is the high levels of social mobilisation that country is currently undergoing, revealing the discontent of its citizens with a system of political representation that is in crisis. This political system, organised in such a way as to sustain the advent of democracy, is not capable of responding to the demands of certain social sectors. This national context strongly questions civil society with regards to the role it must play and in particular, its coordination with the social movements that have arisen. It is a new form of understanding power and why Popular Education, in its political and educational capacity, can make contributions to this process.
