--- Presentation of the MRERS ---
The educational principle of mutual training networks is simple:
Every living person is full of multiple knowledge (intellectual knowledge, everyday knowledge, know-how, etc.).
All knowledge can be transmitted.
By transmitting one's knowledge, one studies it thoroughly, one takes or finds a utility in the human society, and one can find again the desire to learn.
Networks of Mutual exchanges of Knowledge connect people who offer knowledge with those who ask for it.
In the transmission of knowledge there is not any loss, no impoverishment for the one that offers, and the learning of new knowledge is always a supplementary enrichment for the one who receives. The exchange of knowledge is "win-win", it can be therefore "demonetized".
The application of reciprocity in an open network makes possible the inversion of the roles of teacher and of learner for each of the participants.
Meetings "of exchanges on exchanges" allow all actors of exchanges of knowledge to become aware, actors and developers of the educational process.
In districts, the educational process of exchange networks of knowledge have effect on the training of people, but also very positive social effects because they make possible the knowledge and recognition of other people, because they make possible the revalorization of people and their environment in their own eyes as in those of others, because they naturally organize meetings among people of different ages, backgrounds, cultures, and social contexts and weave new social links thus.
The Movement of Networks of Mutual exchanges of Knowledge (M.R.É.R.S.)
The M.R.É.R.S. was created him ten years ago on the initiative of the first networks of mutual training, gather around a charter.
The movement, in the past 10 years has
- developed the thinking on educational and social practice of the R.É.R.S.;
- organized volunteer and professional community organizer training;
- backed the establishment and coordination of several hundred R.É.R.S. including several tens of thousand local actors in France, French-speaking Belgium, Roman Switzerland, Catalonia;
- after mutual recognition, worked jointly with the "mutual universities" developed by Paulo Freire in Brazil.
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