Life in a bidonville (poor urban slum) is portrayed in this study using the lens of learning. This contribution to the generally sparse literature and knowledge on communities in Haiti, discusses elements of informal and non-formal learning in this difficult context. The process of qualitative observation over the period of six months revealed many "community-based assets." These assets contributed to learning by providing spaces of calm, safety and respect, emerging from strong shared values of mutual assistance. In equal proportion, however, mawonaj (deceit or hiding the truth) and silence, as well as the social and cultural challenges of listening at many levels reinforced traditional hierarchies and prevented or interfered with changing mental models, making these obstacles to learning. / In the-heart of this neighbourhood, the focal point of social and economic activity, a community-based development organization served as the vantage point for observation and interviews. Primary information sources included observation and interviews largely involving this organization's personnel, volunteers and the people that frequented it for many different reasons. / The unit of analysis for this study is the adult learner, observed within a community development organizational context. Using the adult learner in situe (at a community centre) as the focal point, this study attempts to gain insights on how community learning takes place. It posits that changes in knowledge, skills and attitudes which take place at an individual level---learning---which bring about transformations in the social and interpersonal context, is the basis of community development. Revealing this context, the content and how the behaviour and mental modeling are controlled at a community's epicentre, gives insights into understanding the process of how the community learns more broadly, giving value to phenomena which take place in and around it. Understanding elements of this process, community learning, can usefully inform approaches to community development intervention.

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Haiti is a unique environment, not just as a third world nation but also in culture and heritage. Economic and political instability has left this country without some of the basic needs and opportunities that we in the western world take for granted. Solutions to Haiti’s problems will only be realized through the understanding of Haiti’s problems. My research’s first goal was to understand the problem of education in Haiti, and then attempt to understand how media and technology can play a role in reform. This study uses qualitative methods to examine a two fold thesis; 1. The cultural differences of Haiti is a context that needs understanding, and 2. How can media and technology benefit the education and cultural society of Haiti? Through my research I seek to demonstrate alternate methods of education through media technologies. Education is an answer to the Haitian people’s problem, it is not, however, a solution for the county’s problems. These two contrasting theories are what I will examine and explore. This study will examine the impact of media on the society and culture of Haiti. Through qualitative research methods used while conducting field research in Haiti, I will address a series of research questions pertaining to the potential effectiveness of media technology education techniques. Using qualitative methods, open-ended questions and participant observation I was able to gather important insights and data on these topics in Haiti with Haitians. While there are many proposed solutions to Haiti’s problems I would rather present an option to better the situation for a small population of Haitian youth. Give a child food and water for life and they will eventually die. Give a child education and that child has the potential to better their economical situation and rise out of poverty. / Department of Telecommunications

Orientador: Helena Maria Santana Sampaio Andery / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T13:53:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Charles_Vagner_M.pdf: 1887010 bytes, checksum: 23a923cf4ff89768ae95beefc745972f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a construção da identidade e da alteridade no Sistema Educacional Haitiano. Apresenta as contribuições e limites da educação no processo de construção da identidade e da alteridade. Analisar como a questão da identidade está colocada no Haiti, especialmente na escola. No entanto, este trabalho não se destina a destacar os confrontos e lutas de poder dentro do sistema econômico e político, mas os fatos de mentalidade, as práticas cotidianas. Pois a questão da identidade, a questão do outro, a questão da cor ... é eminentemente um problema no privado e no público, no âmbito das instituições e no seio da família, nos bancos e na escola, no corpo, no imaginário e nos recessos mais secretos do inconsciente. Para perceber isso, o conceito de identidade / alteridade, com todo o seu potencial de ocultação-designação das contradições sociais, apareceu-me mais proveitoso do que a cultura colorista "global e partilhada", que ignora não só as mudanças e reproduções possíveis de acordo com as classes e grupos sociais, mas sobretudo a interação dinâmica entre eles. Hoje, o contexto político mudou, no entanto, a questão da identidade fica como uma questão social crucial. Não perdeu nada de suas raízes sociais e ainda funciona como mecanismos de ideias de diferenciação e de justificação das condutas, alimentando juízos de valor e práticas excludentes. A linguagem permanece também ainda largamente impregnada disso. Conclui-se que, embora a escola tenha contribuído para a construção da identidade no Haiti, mais a contribuição ainda é pequena, limitada e, em alguns casos inexistente / Abstract: This study aims to analyze the construction of identity and alterity in the educational system Haitian. Features contributions and education limits in the construction process of identity and otherness. Analysis of the role played by the question of identity in Haitian society, especially at school. However, this work is not intended to highlight the clashes and power struggles within the economic and political system, but the mentality of facts, the daily practices. Because the question of identity, the question of the other, the color question ... is essentially a problem in the private and public, within the institutions and within the family, in banks and in school, in the body, the imaginary and in the most secret recesses of the unconscious. To realize this, the concept of identity / alterity, with all its potential blind-designation of social contradictions, appeared to me more fruitful than the colorist culture "global and shared," which ignores not only the changes and possible Reproductions according to the classes and social groups, but especially its dynamic interaction. Today, the political context has changed; however, the question of identity is as a crucial social issue. Has lost none of its social roots and still works as differential systems of ideas and justification of pipelines, feeding value judgments and unequal practices. The language also remains still largely imbued it. We conclude that, although the school has contributed to the construction of identity in Haiti, but the contribution is still small, limited, and some cases inexistent / Mestrado / Ciencias Sociais na Educação / Mestre em Educação