THE POPULAR EDUCATION NEWS
Connecting popular and community-based educators
and activists to resources for improving educational work in social
movements against oppression and for democracy, sustainability, social
justice, and peace.
No. 59 July-August 2008
A free monthly newsletter about popular education and community
organizing resources for facilitators and practitioners. You can
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Theme: Report on Summer of 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. SUMMER AT THE POPULAR EDUCATION NEWS
2. INFORMATION ON NEW RESOURCES SOUGHT
3. ONLINE, DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES
4. IN MINNESOTA
5. LINKS TO POPULAR EDUCATION BLOGS
6. NEW MIDWEST SOCIAL FORUM ACTIVITY PLANNED
7. WHERE POPULAR EDUCATORS WILL GATHER
8. LINKS TO POPULAR EDUCATION WEB SITES AND ONLINE BOOKSTORES
9. QUOTE OF THE MONTH
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1. SUMMER AT THE POPULAR
EDUCATION NEWS by Larry Olds
This summer two interns have been
working with The Popular Education News on projects. The first
concerns the physical collection of popular education and community
organizing materials, the database for the annotated bibliography of
the materials,
and improving the web presences of the information in the bibliography
as well as for the www.popednews.org web site
generally. The second
concerns the archives of the late 60s to early 70s alternative schools
movement that have been languishing in my files for years.
The Popular Education and Community
Organizing Materials for Practitioners and Facilitators
Many of the materials were formerly part of the library at the Resource
Center of the Americas and many have been reviewed in past issues of
this newsletter. The
collection now has been updated by adding some new materials. The
materials are currently in display racks in my basement.
BOOKS IN ENGLISH BOOKS IN SPANISH
BOOKS BY FREIRE AND HORTON
We have begun a series of dialogs with activists, community organizers,
and educators to decide what to do with the collection. This input
from the activist communities we hope will again make the materials
available to improve educational work and organizing in our Twin Cities
communities.
We are also exploring ways to
increase
the visibility to the materials on the web.
Readers of this newsletter are invited to stop by a look over the
materials if you are in Minneapolis. (Contact me for an appointment.)
The Archives of the Late 60s to early 70s Alternative Schools
Movement
The materials in the archives were collected when I was an active part
of the alternatives schools movement here in Minnesota and was teaching
about that
movement at the University of Minnesota's College of Education. The
project to organize the materials and create a list of the materials in
the archive came about because spring semester a University of
Minnesota student was seeking information for her thesis on the history
of the free schools movement. She found that my files contained
significantly more information than any of the libraries where she
looked. The archives include files of materials from various
alternative schools projects, reports, evaluations, both local and
national newsletters, a collection of the main influential books of the
period, and more.
With the database and the list done, the next step is to find a home
for the materials. Our first contact will be with the Minnesota
History Center.
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2. INFORMATION ON NEW RESOURCES SOUGHT
Please help identify new resources and materials for improving the
educational work in our movements against oppression and for democracy,
sustainability, justice and peace. Notices of new print materials in
English or Spanish as well as online links are welcome.
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3. 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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4. IN MINNESOTA
Last Wednesday of the month PTO Twin Cities Alliance
PRACTITIONERS FORUM FREE! (Come one and all)
For details contact Crystal at crystallaurel@gmail.com
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5. LINKS TO POPULAR EDUCATION BLOGS chris cavanagh www.comeuppance.blogspot.com.
(Please send others that you know.)
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6. SOCIAL FORUMS AROUND THE WORLD For
info: http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/
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7. WHERE POPULAR EDUCATORS WILL GATHER
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/
October 20-24, 2008 First International Conference on Prison
Education, AlfaSol
(Alfabetização Solidária - Solidarity in Literacy) is a
Brazilian non-governmental organization, in partnership with UNESCO, Brussels. For
further information: Mr. Fabio Cervone, e-mail fabiorc@alfabetizacao.org.br, or
Mrs. Mariana Sabbagh, e-mail marianabs@alfabetizacao.org.br
http://www.alfabetizacao.org.br/
Nov 27-28, 2008 Critical
Pedagogy and Participatory Learning for Social Transformation: The
Role of Higher Education, Monash University, Clayton Campus,
Melbourne Australia “The conference aims to be a forum for
educators, teachers, students and others who are involved or
interested in education for social transformation in institutions of
higher education in Australia and elsewhere.” For information
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ges/news-and-events/conf1.php
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8. 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
)
*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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9. QUOTE OF THE MONTH
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain
the heartless...Martin Luther King Jr.
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