Announcement of Fall and Winter Popular Education Activities
A popular education week is planned February 4
– 9, 2008 led by two educators from Asociación Equipo Maiz in El Salvador. (Information
about Equipo Maize in Spanish:
or in English)
The week will include
Feb 4-5, 2008 Workshop in Wilmar. MN organized by RAICES
(details TBA)
Feb 6 - 9, 2008 Workshop in Minneapolis
Location:
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Minneapolis
(Full
schedule to follow)
The minneapolis workshop will be for a maximum of 40 participants with an emphasis
on community organizers and community-base activists and educators.
We invite your organization to join us in sponsoring and organizing popular
education week.
For more info contact
Francisco Segovia, Phone: 612 721 1681 x 362 Email: segoviaf@puc.mn.org
Great Opportunity!!
Three preliminary, introductory evening workshops will also be held in the fall as a lead-in to the popular education week in February. These three workshops will be held at Waite House, 2545 13th Ave So, Minneapolis and are free and open to the public. They will be led by local popular education facilitators who each bring different aspects of the richly diverse popular education practice to the forefront of their work.
Please put these dates and times on your schedule and plan to attend one or more of the sessions.
November 8, 2007. 6:30 – 9:00 pm: “Exploring the Intersections of
Oppression & Popular Education” Deborah Rosenstein, Labor Education
Service, University of Minnesota and Ryan Li Dahlstrom, activist and organizer
The workshop will:
- Explore the ways that popular education can both be used to surface issues
of privilege and oppression and the ways that issues of oppression and privilege
turn up in our work as popular educator facilitators and participants. Wrestle,
together with the notion that 'training' can be a stand-alone panacea for
dealing with institutional oppression (vs. training being one piece of broader/long
term organizational planning and action). Move through a series of exercises
and discuss your own experiences...
Click for links
to information about popular education and the presenters
Other workshops in the fall series:
- September 25, 2007, 4:00 – 7:00 pm: “Introduction to Pedagogy
of the Oppressed: SEE, ANALYZE, ACT” Victor Cole and Dr. Rosa Fagundes,
Urban Teacher Education Program, Metro State University
- “Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the
restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the
world, with the world, and with each other.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy
of the Oppressed
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- In SEE, ANALYZE, ACT we welcome all restless, impatient, and hopeful
citizens to attend this interactive presentation in problem posing dialogical
liberatory education. This workshop serves as an introduction to Pedagogy
of the Oppressed methods as articulated by Paulo Freire and practiced by Victor
B. Cole and Rosa Fagundes.
- October 16, 2007, 7:00 – 9:30: “Another Kind of Movement
Education Is Possible: Popular Education” Larry Olds, The Popular Education
News , and Rachel Kennedy, College of St. Catherine’s
- “Once you realize that education need not about podium-centered knowledge
distribution, but can be about participant-centered knowledge creation, it
changes everything.”
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- This introductory workshop will describe and demonstrate various approaches
to popular education, frameworks for carrying out the work, and tools that
can be used in different organizing and activist contexts.