FROM THE PERIPHERY TO THE CENTER: EXPERIENCES OF POPULAR EDUCATION IN EL SALVADOR AND ITS HISTORICAL LEGACY, CONTRADICTIONS AND CURRENT CHALLENGES IN THE CRISIS OF CAPITAL.

Abstract

The present article intends to approach the experience of self-organization and popular education of Salvadoran peasant communities in the context of the people's war of the 70's and 80's. In the center of the transformation in the pattern of dependent capitalist accumulation in which the transition from a Fordist model of accumulation to a flexible post-Fordist pattern occurred, with the maintenance of primary goods agro-exportation matrix, the communities created a powerful self-organized movement in which popular education became a fundamental element in the process of social change, opposing formal education. After a brief history of the most important milestones of popular education in Latin America, we will examine the elements that characterized the experience, its historical legacy, contradictions and current challenges in the structural crisis of capital.