How can we explain that some Popular education militants are also referring to the Information
Society and thus seem to join this plan, carried to a great extent by merchants and the
authorities? Popular education, in addition to a long and plural history, is not homogeneous.
However, Popular education is marked by a common philosophy aiming at developing social,
cultural and political people’s emancipation. Indeed, the reference to the Information Society
allows the militants of Popular Education to update their traditional issues, and also to overcome
the crisis they are facing. Lastly, if this meeting seems, at first sight, to generate consensus, the
inherent conflicts in the confrontation of the values and identities do not therefore disappear and
question the real stakes at work.