Posts Tagged: popular-education - (15 found)

spiral model - action research
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April 6, 2016

Learning to design and lead workshops with activists

A few weeks ago, I was invited by the convenor of the 350.org group in Sydney to lead a short workshop with their team. Their campaign to encourage universities and other institutions to divest from fossil fuels is building momentum. They’re actively recruiting and training new leaders, and wanted to build their skills and confidence to design and…

Learning activism: The intellectual life of contemporary social movements

Learning activism: The intellectual life of contemporary social movements

By: Aziz Choudry

What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that such organizations are best understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge, debates, and…

education vs training
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February 16, 2015

Education or training? What’s the difference and why does it matter?

Training prepares people to do simple tasks reliably. It’s generally very practical and focuses on the competent completion of tasks. Education develops skills and knowledge. It involves forming and communicating ideas, developing and challenging understandings and learning to conceptualise and solve problems. Community organising and campaigning are not basic skills or competencies that can be learnt through…

Yo, Si Peudo: A global literacy movement

Since it was first trialled in Haiti in 2000, Cuba’s Yo, Si Puedo model for mounting mass adult literacy campaigns has mobilised over six million people in twenty-nine countries to acquire basic literacy. Cuba’s unique south-south approach to international aid and cooperation and its extensive experience with mass literacy campaigns over more than five decades makes this model a classic case study for postcolonial education theory and practice. Bob Boughton and Deborah Durnan’s case study is based on evidence collected in an extended participatory action research project during Yo, Si Puedo’s deployment in Timor-Leste’s national literacy campaign (2007-2011) and in a recent pilot study of the model in three Indigenous communities in Australia (2012-2014).

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Trapese Collective

‘Taking Radical Action through Popular Education and Sustainable Everything’  5-member activist education collective based in the UK.  Trapese have identified the following characteristics of popular education: a commitment to transformation and freedom; learning our own histories not his-story; starting from daily realities; learning together as equals and showing solidarity; getting out of the classroom; and inspiring social change.

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