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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

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, & others

at Highlander's 25th Reunion, 1957

Teaching unions, literacy

And desegregation from

30s- 50s

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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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