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The Popular Education News is a free monthly email newsletter about popular education and community organizing resources for facilitators and practitioners. You can contribute to future issues by sending suggestions, notices of materials, and short reviews. Please contact us to subscribe or for further information. All back issues are archived on this website.

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The Question Circle for Improving Presentations and Lectures: A Popular Education Tool

by Larry Olds

How to create a dynamic interactive presentation or lecture, using the idea of "shifting from podium-centered knowledge distribution to participant-centered knowledge creation". Larry Olds describes how Question Circles allow participants to engage in discussion during plenary sessions.

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A Memoir of My Journey in Adult Education- The Making of a Popular Educator

by Larry Olds

Larry Olds illustrates his experiences in Popular Education.

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Counting Our Victories Popular Education and Community Organizing

by Denise Nadeau

A Training Guide on Popular Education and Organizing

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Getting the Community into the Act

by Pat Ellis

72 Participatory Activities for Field Workers and Trainers

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A Popular Education Handbook

by Rick Arnold, Bev Burke

An educational experience taken from Central America and adapted to the Canadian context. Introduces Popular Education, examples, and tools for building a popular education program.

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Naming the Moment Political Analysis for Action - A Manual for Community Groups

by Deborah Barndt

This manual is for groups organizing around an issue to understand the method of political analysis for action, called naming the moment, and to encourage community groups to adapt the ideas to their own work.

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Ready for Action: A Popular Theatre Popular Education Manual

by Jennifer Anderson, Jennifer Michol, Joshua Silverberg

This manual is for teachers, camp and youth organizations, community organizations, or people who want to start their own Popular Theater group. This manual introduces Popular Education and Popular Theater- concepts, ways a group can be organized, activities, and exercises.

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What is Popular Education?

What exactly is Popular Education, anyway?

The idea of popular education (often described as "education for critical consciousness") as a teaching methodology came from a Brazilian educator and writer named Paulo Freire, who was writing in the context of literacy education for poor and politically disempowered people in his country. It's different from formal education (in schools, for example) and informal education (learning by living) in that it is a process which aims to empower people who feel marginalized socially and politically to take control of their own learning and to effect social change.

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An African Tree of Knowledge

by Larry Olds

Larry Olds describes a youth workshop held in Uganda that has youth build a tree based on their experiences. The youth use different color papers for the roots, trunk, branches, fruit- each part representing their identity, experiences, and aspirations. This activity led to a mural project for the youth.

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Planning Educational Activities with Eight Overlapping and Interlock Popular Education Principles

by Larry Olds

A chart to organize the discussion of purposes and goals as the starting point in planning, based on the 8 popular education principles.

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