Jason Thomas Wozniak LAPES at PES March 16, 2014

This is a video of  Jason Thomas Wozniak,  co-founder of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES), introducing the LAPE project at the Philosophy of Education Society (PES) annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  This nascent project in the field organized a reading laboratory on Simon Rodriguez.  Rodriguez, who was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1769, and died in Peru in 1854, was a philosopher and educator, and notably the tutor of revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar.  He travelled widely throughout the Americas (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Peru), and also in Europe (Italy, Germany, Prussia, Poland, Russia), studying widely in the fields of arts and science, and recording what might be called itinerant notes throughout his travels.  Despite being an important figure in cultural history and the history of ideas, and representing a persona that might be described as a kind of cosmopolitan figure, he is not part of the canon of philosophy of education.  The work of LAPES at PES presented the written work of Rodriguez, recovered through a philosophical archeology: a methodology where, figuratively speaking, published works by 'buried' figures such as Rodriguez are unearthed and brought into the laboratory of collective study.  The unearthed material is subjected to experimental analysis and critique, a phenomenology of  'translation' that brings the thinking into being and places them into the conversation of philosophy of education.

For more on the work of LAPES:

http://lapeslapes.blogspot.com/p/mission.html