WHERE POPULAR EDUCATORS WILL GATHER
Where popular educators
gathered
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As of May 2008
7. WHERE POPULAR EDUCATORS WILL GATHER
May 16-18, 2008 Project South 21st Anniversary
Celebration, Atlanta "Come to Atlanta to celebrate
the legacy of 21 years of movement building in the South. Come out to celebrate
Project South's founders. Come out for rich dialogue and storytelling. Come
out to celebrate intergenerational organizing across the decades. Come out to
support the work of Project South as we move forward with renewed vision and
excitement. Bring your stories, inspiration, and dancing shoes!" For more
information contact Christi Ketchum - christi@projectsouth.org / 404.622.0602
May 22, 2008 Popular Education and
the ideas of Paulo Freire: how relevant are they to Brazil and Scotland today?
University of Glasgow, Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong
Learning Room N101, St Andrew's Building,11 Eldon Street, Glasgow. For further
details and to reserve a place on this seminar please email CRADALL@educ.gla.ac.uk
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
June 9 -12, 2008 Progressive Technology Project TechCamp.
Space and scholarships available. Contact PTP
Summer 2008 Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements.
Simon Fraser University. (Theme - Displacement and Migration: Restoring
Dignity and Sacred Connection with summer public forums covering three
critical areas that intersect with organizing in social movements: Indigenous
Worldviews on Truth and Reconciliation; Human Dignity and the 2010 Olympics: Challenging
the Trafficking of Women; and Sanctuary:Zones of Peace Against State Violence.)
For information
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