With the intent to collect ethnographic data for a larger study on women teaching in the popular education sector in Argentina, I attended a series of six popular educator-training workshops with the social movement FPDF. (2)
Founded in 2004, FPDF organized to find disadvantaged community members employment, decent living conditions, and encourage poor and working-class neighborhoods to be free of drug dealers and political pundits.
FPDF decided to sponsor these workshops to enact popular education strategies they saw as absent in traditional teacher training programs.