The common as educational practice: The experience of mutual-aid housing cooperatives in Uruguay

Abstract

We present a series of reflections over the experience of the Uruguayan Federation of mutual-aid housing cooperatives, the largest urban territorial movement in the country. The main focus is the production of the common. As a starting point, we address collective ownership, but we also think about the collective framework that makes it possible and also about the significant experiences of subjective alteration which constitute educational processes, in a broad sense. We highlight the importance of three spheres of activity of the movement in this process: the undertaken struggles,deliberative and decision processes, and self-management stage of the work, as learning moments that spill over other experiences where the common is produced.