No. 55 February 2008 Theme: Materials in Spanish from Equipo Maiz
THE POPULAR EDUCATION NEWS
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS:
1. POPULAR EDUCATION MATERIALS IN SPANISH FROM
EQUIPO MAIZ
2. NEW RESOURCES ON 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF PAULO
FREIRE'S DEATH
3. MANY FACES OF MEXICO CURRICULUM
AVAILABLE
4. ONLINE, DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES
5. IN
MINNESOTA
6. LINKS
TO POPULAR EDUCATION BLOGS
7. NEW
MIDWEST SOCIAL FORUM ACTIVITY PLANNED
8.
WHERE POPULAR EDUCATORS WILL GATHER
9.
LINKS TO POPULAR EDUCATION WEB SITES AND
ONLINE BOOKSTORES
10. QUOTE OF THE
MONTH
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1.
POPULAR EDUCATION MATERIALS IN SPANISH FROM EQUIPO MAIZ
Link
to Equipo Maiz website:
http://www.equipomaiz.org.sv/HisTodo.html
The Equipo Maize is a
group of women and men who make popular pamphlets and books, and
conduct educational days, workshops and actvities on different
subjects. They seek to explain in simple form, subjects that affect
the conditions of life of the great majorities. They offer methods to
analyze the reality of the home, the group, the community, the
country and the world, to understand that everything is related.
Their processes help people to form opinions so that every one
decides what they want to do to change the reality of their home,
group, community, country and of the world.
The
Equipo Maize began work in popular education from 1983 in El
Salvador. They arose in the middle of the war, from parishes of the
periphery of San Salvador, to collaborate in the necessity of
understanding what was happening in these years. Through the years,
they have maintained their two fundamental areas of work, training
and publications that emphasize issues and techniques.
The
Equipo Maize works 5 subjects: Methodology of Popular Education,
Sexuality and Gender, Economic Literacy, Management of risks
(Understanding risks?), and Historical Memory. From these 5
subjects, the Equipment Maize has developed the following collections
of materials:
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Training Workshops have been developed in the
five areas mentioned above. These workshops may be
consultations on an hour or two, a few hours in length, multiple
days, or weekly sessions they refer to as schools.
The work is done in among groups in the popular sectors: marginal groups, cooperative women, young people, communities, educational groups, union, Base Communities, communal directors, etc.
The
mode of work is to respond to a request of a community or an
organized group in their place. The organization who asks for the
services of the Equipo Maize summons the people which they will
attend the event, elaborates the work schedule and looks for the
premises where the training activity will be done.
Contact
Information: Equipo Maize 29 North Av.,
N 1117, Col. Buenos Aires 3 Tels.: 2225-3810, 2225-0488, 2225-0490
and 2235-1301? Fax: 2235-1300 Workshops: talleresmaiz@integra.com.sv
San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A.
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2.
NEW RESOURCES ON 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF PAULO FREIRE'S DEATH
T
he
current issue of the good journal Adult
Education and Development from dvv
international in Germany features a number of fine essays on Paulo
Freire and his influence. The journal is available in a number
of languages. For information info@dvv-international.de
or www.dvv-international.de
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3. MANY FACES OF MEXICO CURRICULUM AVAILABLE
D
ue
to the closing of the Resource Center of the Americas some copies of this 376
page curriculum are available for the cost of postage. Many Faces of Mexico
includes nine designated Exploring the Connections lessons on topics linking
Mexico, Canada and the US. These lessons encourage the connection of Mexican
history with that of other countries and study political, economic and cultural
systems as interrelated. It also encourages the consideration of personal connections
with Mexico and the Mexican people. The curriculum consists of five units
and 24 lessons. Most of the lessons require more than one class session to complete.
The reading level of the handouts varies from sixth to tenth grade skill, depends
upon the content of the lesson. Some parts of the materials would be appropriate
in community and adult contexts as well as in schools. Send an email to this
newsletter if you are interested in acquiring a copy.
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4. ONLINE, DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES
(A New Regular Feature of this Newsletter)
(Please send information about other links. -- the editor)
Collectivo Flatlander resources http://www.colectivoflatlander.org/Site/Resources.html
Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action (PILA) tools: From Personal to Political - Timeline Exercises,
Building Relationships, and New Citizens Vote! Curriculum at http://www.pilaweb.org/content/view/25/58/
Southerners On New Ground (SONG) LGBT&Q resources: http://www.southernersonnewground.org/?cat=11
The School for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) training manuals and a variety of specific training
activities at http://www.youthec.org/soul/soul_sec/resources/re-free_training.html.
The Change Agency in Australia one of the best sources for popular education materials and links to
good stuff: http://www.thechangeagency.org
Books by Michael Newman - free access: (http://www.michaelnewman.info/)
Just Associates: short publications from our work that deal with popular education in different ways. :
Forging A Global Movement: New Education Strategies for the United States and the World,
Making Change Happen: Power, and Making Change Happen: Citizen Engagement and Global Economic Power http://www.justassociates.org
Training for Change - "Tools": http://trainingforchange.org/content/section/4/39/
Great materials on health related subjects with a popular education point of view from Luis Kong
in Santa Rosa CA:: http://www.hesperian.org/
Wonderful photos that can be used for popular education codes to help people share experience and find their voice
in educational activities. from Dorothy Wigmore in Winnipeg : www.earldotter.com
HIV/AIDS stigma popular education manual http://www.changeproject.org/technical/hivaids/stigma.html
The Ruckus Society resources http://www.ruckus.org/article.php?list=type&type=9
Trapese Popular Education Collective resources http://www.trapese.org/
Poped Toolkit various links http://poped.org//links/poped.html
Partners Training for Transformation http://www.trainingfortransformation.ie/
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5.
IN MINNESOTA
Popular Education Week,
Feb 4 5, 2008 Workshop in Wilmar, MN
Feb 7 9, 2008 Workshop in Minneapolis, MN
The two workshops will be led by two educators from Asociaci��quipo Maiz in El Salvador. The week of popular education training will be for a maximum of 40 participants at each workshop with an emphasis on community organizers and community-base activists and educators. The week will conclude with a celebration/Fiesta on Saturday, Feb 9. For information about Asociaci��quipo Maiz in Spanish: http://www.equipomaiz.org.sv/HisTodo.html , in English: http://www.popednews.org/epuipo_web_page.htm
All the spaces in the workshop are full and registration is closed, but join us for a fiesta and report to the community on Saturday evening, Feb 9, 7:00 pm, Bethany Lutheran Church, 2511 E Franklin Ave, Mpls.
Popular Education Training Day
23
FEB 1-5pm Featuring Larry Olds, Cheryl Wilson, and
others. Location
TBA.
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6.
LINKS TO POPULAR EDUCATION BLOGS
chris
cavanagh www.comeuppance.blogspot.com.
(Please send others that you
know.)
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7.
NEW MIDWEST SOCIAL FORUM ACTIVITY PLANNED
MIDWEST SOCIAL FORUM (MWSF) "Organizing Communities across Boundaries" An Organizing Teach-in sponsored by the Midwest Social Forum MARCH 28-30, 2008 at Wonderland Camp and Conference Center (http://www.wonderlandcamp.com/), Camp Lake, Wisconsin
This weekend-long organizing teach-in is designed to provide a follow- up to the United States and Midwest Social Forums for Midwest-based grassroots organizations, activists, and students, and to contribute to the continued development of the social justice movement in the Midwest. The teach-in focuses on the development of collaborative relationships and organizing skills, strategies, and tactics. More specifically, the event is tailored to strengthening regional social and issue area networks and their interconnections, and to providing valuable training in certain key aspects of organizing, focusing in particular on the challenges of building broad-based coalitions across race, gender, class, age, issue area, and other sources of division within the social justice movement. The teach-in will offer a number of high quality workshops and interactive activities designed to enable participants to identify both the interconnections between different communities and struggles as well as the causes of ongoing division among them, and to develop the organizing strategies, tactics, and skills needed to establish stronger social, strategic, and organizational links and thereby break out of the "silos" that have served to segment the social justice movement.
More information on program, registration, and logistics available soon Go to www.mwsocialforum.org or contact info@mwsocialforum.org or 608-262-0854.
OTHER SOCIAL FORUMS AROUND THE WORLD
For info: http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/
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8.
WHERE POPULAR EDUCATORS WILL GATHER
Feb 3-10, 2008 Minnesota Popular Education Week
(see above or details posted on www.popednews.org)
March
7-8, 2008 WE LEARN 5th Annual
(Net)Working Conference on Women & Literacy,
Fordham Univ. at Lincoln Center, NYC
http://www.litwomen.org/news.html
March 17-21, 2008 Popular
Education for Labor Educators with
Tess Ewing and Anneta Argyres, Labor Resource Center at UMass Boston
This one week intensive course will expose
students to the theories of adult learning and Freirean philosophy
that underpin popular education, as well as explore with students
different popular education approaches and toolsincluding the use of
triggers, generative themes, and forum theatre.
For information www.cpcs.umb.edu/lrc
March 28-30, 2008 MIDWEST
SOCIAL FORUM (MWSF) "Organizing Communities across Boundaries"
An Organizing Teach-in sponsored by the
Midwest Social Forum at Wonderland Camp and Conference Center
(http://www.wonderlandcamp.com/),
Camp Lake, Wisconsin (more info above)
April
8-11, 2008 WORKER
RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS: What Implications for Organized Labor and
Labor Education? United Association for
Labor Education (UALE), Minneapolis www.uale.org
April
11-13, 2008 2008
Labor Notes Conference: "Rebuilding Labor's Power" ,
Dearborn, MI
http://www.labornotes.org/conference
May 4-7, 2008 Community-University
Partnerships: Connecting for Change,
Office of Community Based Research, University of Victoria, Victoria
BC. An exposition to celebrate existing
and explore new community-university research partnerships.
Community- based research is an exciting movement of learning and
growing for all involved. Through these partnerships, community
members and academics build research skills and gain increased
confidence, increase democratic participation, and influence change
in the lives of all living in the region. For more information,
please visit www.cuexpo08.ca.
May
22-25, 2008, The
14th Annual Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed International
Conference: What
is change? What is substantial change? And how?
University of Nebraska at Omaha,
http://www.ptoweb.org/conference.html
May 28-30, 2008, Grassroots
& Groundwork: Sharing What Works to Reduce Poverty and Grow
Community Prosperity, Northwest Area
Foundation, Bloomington, MN www.grassrootsandgroundwork.org
June 6-8, 2008 Highlander
Social Change Workshop New Market,
Tennessee For information:
http://www.highlandercenter.org/n-sc-workshop2008.asp
October 16-18, 2008, Learning
Democracy by Doing: Alternative Practices in Citizenship Learning and
Participatory Democracy, The
Transformative Learning Centre, Toronto, Canada.
http://tlc.oise.utoronto.ca/
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9. LINKS TO POPULAR EDUCATION WEB SITES AND ONLINE
BOOKSTORES (*those with online bookstores)
*Catalyst Centre ( www.catalystcentre.ca/index.htm
)
*Highlander Center (www.highlandercenter.org
)
*Resource Center of the Americas (www.americas.org
)
*Growing Communities for Peace (
www.humanrightsandpeacestore.org
)
*IPEA (www.peopleseducation.org/
)
Project South (www.projectsouth.org
)
Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research (
www.cpepr.info)
Pop Ed Links Directory http://poped.org
WE LEARN: Women Expanding-Literacy Education Action Resource
Network (http://
www.litwomen.org/news.html)
Centre for Popular Education Archives (http://www.cpe.uts.edu.au/
)
The Change Agency (
www.thechangeagency.org/index.htm)
Kotare Trust (www.kotare.org.nz)
Training for Change www.TrainingforChange.org
TRAPESE: Take Radical Action Through Popular Education and
Sustainable Everything http://www.trapese.org/
North
American Alliance for Popular and Adult Education (NAAPAE) Archives
http://www.popednews.org/naapae_archives.htm
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10. QUOTE OF THE MONTH
It is not what you gather but what
you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
From http://www.oneliners-and-proverbs.com/
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