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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.
This newsletter is distributed free. To subscribe send an email to lolds@popednews.org. Check out www.popednews.org for an archive of back
issues and an annotated bibliography of the popular education and community organizing
collection.
No. 51 September 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. ONLINE, DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES (A New
Regular Feature of this Newsletter)
2. NEW PUBLICATION FROM THE
3. CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EDUCATION AND WORK (CSEW)
5. WIKIPEDIA'S POPULAR EDUCATION ENTRIES
6. LINKS TO POPULAR EDUCATION BLOGS
7. UPDATE ON
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. 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,
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
The Change Agency in
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. :
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
Wonderful photos that can be used for popular education codes to help
people share experience and find their voice
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
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2. NEW PUBLICATION FROM THE
This booklet summarizing a concise history of Highlander's 75 years with photos
and words was prepared for the 75th anniversary celebration held Aug 31- Sept
2, 2007. Available from www.highlandercenter.org.
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3. CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EDUCATION AND WORK (CSEW)
Check out the Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) which
brings together educators from university, union, and community settings to
understand and enrich the often-undervalued informal and formal learning of
working people. We develop research and teaching programs at the Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education (UofT) that strengthen
feminist, anti-racist, labour movement, and working-class
perspectives on learning and work.
http://www.learningwork.ca/
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5. WIKIPEDIA'S POPULAR EDUCATION ENTRIES
Check out Wikipedias popular education entry
which highlights the history of popular education in the French context.
The web pages also contain some good links to related topics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_education
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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. UPDATE ON MIDWEST SOCIAL FORUM
Activities include Caucusing / Organizer Training
event in fall 2007, in preparation for the MWSF in the summer of 2008. T
OTHER SOCIAL FORUMS AROUND THE WORLD
For info: http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/
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8. WHERE POPULAR EDUCATORS WILL
GATHER
Sept 10-11, 2007 Democratising Democracy A
New Social Purpose Agenda in Adult Education Conference, NIACE, Madingley Hall Universityof
Cambridge, Madingley, Enquiries toGurjit
Kaur, gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk
Info at http://www.niace.org.uk/conferences/Conferences.htm,
Sept 20-23, 2007 5th ESREA European Research Conference: Adult Learning
and the Challenges of Social and Cultural Diversity: Diverse Lives, Cultures, Learnings and Literacies ,
University of Seville and Institute of Paulo Freire
of Spain, Seville, Spain http://www.congreso.us.es/cesrea
Oct. 18-20, 2007 Communities & Labour:
Building Unity and Justice Through Diversity, Toronto, CSEW Learning
Community Unionism Working Group, OISE/UT, Toronto Training Board. http://www.learningwork.ca/
Dec 25, 2007 International Researching Work and Learning Conference
RWL5 , Cape Town, South Africa http://rwl5.uwc.ac.za
Feb 3-10, 2008 Minnesota Popular Education Week (details posted on www.popednews.org)
Fri-Sat. March 7-8, 2008 WE LEARN 5th Annual (Net)Working Conference on
Women & Literacy, Fordham Univ. at Lincoln Center, NYC
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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 ( 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/
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10. PROVERB OF THE MONTH
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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything. From http://www.oneliners-and-proverbs.com/
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