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Popular Education: How to inspire change through learning. The Trapese Collective. 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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Popular Education: How to inspire change through learning The Trapese Collective
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
PlusMinusInteresting How is it different from state education? • Banking or ‘mug and jug’ model • Dialogic model
Where does it come from? • Highlander school- Tennessee • Paolo Freire/ Latin America • Canada- Workers movement
30s Teaching unions, literacy And desegregation from 30s- 50s Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, & others at Highlander's 25th Reunion, 1957
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1972
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