ASTE Network

Research Network on Associations and Unions of Workers in Education

Cátedra UNESCO “Educação, Cidadania e Diversidade Cultural”

Website redeaste.irice-conicet.gov.ar

Overview

The First Seminar on Associations and Labor Unions in Education  took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2009, and its main result was foundation of the REDE ASTE network – Research Network on Associations and Unions of Workers in Education.

The main objective of the REDE ASTE network is to bring together researchers, students and union members who have as research subject matter associations and labor unions of workers in education, each time a more important sector of world labor unions.

As a matter of fact, teacher and administrative educators  are involved with human formation since the first grades until university, being education one of the most unionized sectors of the world.

Coordination

  • Adrián Ascolani (IRICE/CONICET- Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)
  • Amarílio Ferreira Jr. (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brasil)
  • André Robert (Université Lumière, Lyon 2, França),
  • Aurora Loyo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
  • Caros Bauer (Universidade Nove de Julho, Brasil)
  • Deise Mancebo (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
  • Julián Gindin (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil)
  • Márcia Ondina Vieira Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brasil)
  • Marcos Ferraz (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil)
  • Ricardo Pires de Paula (Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Brasil)
  • Rosa Serradas Duarte (Universidade Lusófona, Portugal)
  • Sadi Dal Rosso (Universidade de Brasília, Brasil)
  • Savana Diniz (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil)

Research

Trying to understand the world size of this phenomenon of labor unions in education, research  has turned towards the “inside” of the category of teachers and administrative staff, observing questions such as the growth of labor unions in education, the internal organization, gender, race, migration, democratization, autonomy, union freedom and other questions; as well as “towards  inside” when the problems involve governments, administrations, State and State policies, employers, larger political spheres, social classes, etc…

List of research by country, institution, main researchers and subject matters.

Brasil

  1. Federal University of Pelotas – Marcia Ondina Vieira Ferreira, – Gender and teacher labor unions.
  2. Federal University of São Carlos – Amarilio Ferreira Jr, Danusa Mendes Almeida – Teacher movements and leftist organizations
  3. University of the State of  Rio de Janeiro – Deise Mancebo – Teachers labor and higher education.
  4. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – Libania Xavier – Collective action, political opportunity and teacher identity: Brazilian and Portuguese teaching movements.
  5. Unicamp –  Aparecida Neri de Sousa, Patrícia Vieira Tropia – Labor Union Movements and the proletarianization of labor.
  6. University of Brasilia – Sadi Dal Rosso, Erlando da Silva Rêses, Luiz Carlos Galetti – Genesis of the labor unions of basic education (Rio de Janeiro, Sergipe).
  7. University of Brasilia – Sadi Dal Rosso – Economic contribution and union democracy. Impacts and perspectives of the union reform in Brazil..
  8. Universidade Estadual Paulista – Ricardo Pires de Paula – The strike of public teachers in São Paulo, 1963: actions and representations.
  9. UNINOVE, São Paulo – Carlos Bauer, Alessandro Rubens de Matos, Cássio Calvente – Labor Union of Professionals in Education of the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.
  10. Federal University of Paraná – Marcos Ferraz e Andréa Barbosa Gouveia – Educational policy and teacher’s labor unions.
  11. Universidade Federal Fluminense – Julián Gindin – Teachers labor unionism in Latin America: Argentina, México and Brazil.

United States of America

  1. New York University – Bruce Cooper – Labor unions in the United States: trends and scenarios.

Mexico

  1. UNAM – Aurora Loyo, Aldo Muñoz – SNTE: from workers of education to teaching professionals?

France

  1. Université de Lyon – André D. Robert – From 1968 until the decade of 2000. Struggles for influence and crossed positions of the main labor unions of French teachers.

Argentina

  1. Universidad de Rosario – Adrián Ascolani – The provincial federation of teachers of Santa Fé: experiences and limits of teachers’ unionism. (Argentina, 1918-1943)

Chile

  1. Universidad de Santiago – Christian Eduardo Matamoros Fernandez – Chilean teachers. Between corporatism and resistance to the military dictatorhip (1973-1981)

Portugal

  1. Universidade Lusófona – Rosa Serradas Duarte, Antonio Teodoro e Maria Neves Gonçalves – Associationism, unionism and teaching identity: particularities of the Portuguese course.

 

Scientific Committee

  • Adrián Ascolani (IRICE/CONICET- Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)
  • Amarílio Ferreira Jr. (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brasil)
  • André Robert (Université Lumière, Lyon 2, França),
  • Aurora Loyo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
  • Caros Bauer (Universidade Nove de Julho, Brasil)
  • Deise Mancebo (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
  • Julián Gindin (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil)
  • Márcia Ondina Vieira Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brasil)
  • Marcos Ferraz (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil)
  • Ricardo Pires de Paula (Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Brasil)
  • Rosa Serradas Duarte (Universidade Lusófona, Portugal)
  • Sadi Dal Rosso (Universidade de Brasília, Brasil)
  • Savana Diniz (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil)

Events / Seminars

The REDE ASTE network has organized, until 2019, seven international events, four in-between preparatory meetings, and one regional seminar (Brasilia and Belo Horizonte).

Resources to maintain the REDE ASTE Research Network have come primarily from public national and international institutions (CNPq and CAPES in Brazil; CONICET in Argentina), as well as state foundations, private foundations, public and private universities, graduate master and Ph. D. programs; and in smaller numbers, national and international labor unions.

  1. Associativism and teacher unionism in Brazil: Seminar for discussion of research and constitution of researchers network – April 2009 – University Institute of Research of Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ) – Brazil.
  2. Associations and unions of workers in education – International seminar for discussion of research – April 22 and 23, 2010 – University Institute of Research of Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ) – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil.
  3. III Seminar of the Researchers Network on Associativism and Trade Unionism of Workers in Education – April 18, 19 and 20, 2011 – Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil.
  4. ASTE Network Regional Seminar – 2011 – Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) – Belo Horizonte – Brazil.
  5. ASTE Network Regional Seminar – 2011 – University of Brasília (UnB) – Brasília – Brazil.
  6. Meeting for the IV International Seminar of the Network of Researchers on Associativism and Unionism of Workers in Education – September 20 and 21, 2012 – Universidade Nova de Julho (UNINOVE) – São Paulo – Brazil.
  7. IV International Seminar of the Network of Researchers on Associativism and Unionism of Workers in Education – April 17, 18 and 19, 2013 – Fluminense Federal University (UFF) – Niterói – Brazil.
  8. Meeting for the Fifth International Seminar of the Network of Researchers on Associativism and Trade Unionism of Workers in Education – June 4, 5 and 6, 2014 – Nove de Julho University (UNINOVE) – São Paulo – Brazil.
  9. Fifth International Seminar of the Network of Researchers on Associationism and Trade Unionism of Education Workers: education, teaching work and trade unions – 2015 – National University of Rosario – Rosario – Argentina.
  10. Meeting of Researchers for the VI International Seminar of the ASTE Network – November 9, 10 and 11, 2016 – Nove de Julho University (UNINOVE) – São Paulo – Brazil.
  11. VI International Seminar of the Network of Researchers on Associativism and Trade Unionism of Workers in Education – 9, 10 and 11 November 2017 – Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) – Curitiba – Brazil.
  12. Meeting for the VII International Seminar of the Network of Researchers on Associativism and Trade Unionism of Workers in Education – August 1, 2 and 3, 2018 – University of Nove de Julho (UNINOVE) – Brazil.
  13. A OCCURRER – VII International Seminar of the ASTE Network – Teaching Trade Unionism and the Construction of Profession in Europe and Latin America: Trade Union Contributions, State of Research and Prospects – July 11-13, 2019 – Lusófona University – Lisbon – Portugal.

 

International perspective

So far, REDE ASTE Network has organized its events in Brazilian metropolises (Rio de Janeiro, Niterói, São Paulo, Curitiba) and in Rosario (Argentina).

Now, in the seventh edition, discussions will take place at Lisbon (Portugal) in the Lusofona University. Lisbon presents the opportunity to weave even more internationalized relationships, by including researchers from Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary and other European countries, which will sum up with participants of previous events, coming chiefly from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, USA, England, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Brazil. Such participation shows the effective international perspective of the Rede ASTE research network.

Publications

The results of researches and of debates  in biannual events are published in scientific journals and event annals as well as in collected books that keep  alive the international perspective.

Among such collected books there are the first book entitled Associations and Unions in Education: organization and struggles; the second, Associations and Unions in Education: Theory, History and Social Movements; and the third, Labor unionism in Education and Labor relations: a global view. In addition to these, there are the books published by research groups based at UNINOVE, São Paulo, Brazil, and the University of Rosario, in Argentina.