Popular Education: How to inspire change through learning

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Popular Education How to inspire change through
learning
The Trapese Collective
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everyone teaches and everyone learns
What is popular education

• Education for critical consciousness
• a collective effort
• everyone teaches and everyone learns
• actively working towards social change

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How is it different from state education?

• Banking or mug and jug model
• Dialogic model

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Where does it come from?

• Highlander school- Tennessee
• Paolo Freire/ Latin America
• Canada- Workers movement

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30s
Teaching unions, literacy And desegregation from
30s- 50s
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, others at
Highlander's 25th Reunion, 1957
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1972
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Role of the popular educator/facilitator
It is imperative that we maintain hope even when
the harshness of reality may suggest the
opposite bell hooks
Teaching to Transgress Education as the Practice
of Freedom. 1994 Teaching Community A Pedagogy
of Hope 2004
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