A system map is a visual depiction of the relationships between actors within a system. Often, system maps depict flows of information and/or resources. In this four-part blog series, Emily Gate, Srik Gopal, Lauren M. Smith, and Joelle Cook of FSG give guidance, share examples, and and might even get you to pick up a marker and draw a rich picture!
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Posts Tagged: popular-education - (15 found)
General News
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
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…
General News
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…
General News
February 11, 2015
Education and social action… inexplicably intertwined
‘Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should…
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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Rising Tide popular education resource pack
Spring 2007 Rising Tide North America spent four months touring the US & Canada. This pdf contains step by step explanations of the popular education games, exercises, topics & many of the resources we used.
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Henry Giroux: Figures in critical pedagogy
A fascinating interview with one of the inspirational leaders in critical pedagogy.
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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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Popular Education News
A fabulous repository of resources, ideas, research and networks for popular educators. The Popular Education News is a free email newsletter about popular education and community organizing resources for facilitators and practitioners.
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People Power Manual
‘How to’ guides for campaigners, organisers and activist educators.
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Angela Davis
It is extremely important not to assume that there are 'communities of color' out there fully formed, conscious of themselves, just waiting for vanguard organizers to mobilize them into action... We have to think about organizing as producing the communities, as generating community, as building communities of struggle.
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It is extremely important not to assume that there are ‘communities of color’ out there fully formed, conscious of themselves, just waiting for vanguard organizers to mobilize them into action… We have to think about organizing as producing the communities, as generating community, as building communities of struggle.
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/angela-davis/