activist education
Facilitating group learning: Strategies for success with adult learners
This book defines principles and techniques for teaching adults in groups and includes illustrative stories from the experiences of the author. It deals with issues of diversity, as well as authenticity and emotions in group learning. This book describes how to...
Popular education South Africa
This site is concerned with popular education in past, present and future: links to organisations dealing with popular education in other parts of the world; a library of documents, visual, auditory and print information about past and present popular education...
Brainstorming doesnt really work
Typically, participants leave a brainstorming session proud of their contribution. The whiteboard has been filled with free associations. Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It...
8 skills of a well trained activist
George Lakey writes: “In the 1950s, there was no place I could go to learn this kind of activist facilitation training, even though Paulo Freire was doing groundbreaking work in his Pedagogy of the Oppressed and the Gandhi-influenced Muslim leader Abdul Ghaffar...
Models of education
This document captures some key forms of education: facilitation, training, conscientisation in an attempt to differentiate between them.
Learning together for critical consciousness: Clare and Ack’s popular education zine
Designed for a one-day workshop on popular education for people who have an active interest in social change – educators, facilitators, community workers, researchers, campaigners, artists…
No to two hour workshops
A short article by Daniel Hunter, training associate with Training for Change.
Catalyst Centre
Non- profit worker co-op that promotes innovative learning, popular education, research and community development to advance positive social change.
Experiential learning wikipedia
Experiential education is a process for learning through action. The term is often used interchangeably with experiential learning.
water glass exercise
This activity is used by Ouyporn Khuankeaw, a trainer in Thailand who most often works with village development workers, women leaders, monks and nuns, and NGO staff. She finds that popular education/experiential education is easier for participants to get the most...
Kotare Research & Education for Social Change
tCA’s sister organisation in Aotearoa (New Zealand). This awesome crew facilitate workshops and develop community research on social change issues. Kia ora!
experiential learning david kolb
David Kolb’s model of experiential learning can be found in many discussions of the theory and practice of adult education, informal education and lifelong learning. This website set out the model, and examines its possibilities and problems.
Highlander Research and Education Center
Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny.
Advocacy for social justice and sustainability
Steve Chase convenes this incredible postgraduate course at Antioch University, New England.
Midwest Academy
The academy teaches organising methods and skills that empower ordinary citizens to actively participate in the democratic process.
Training for Change
Training for Change provides activist training for groups standing up for social, economic, and environmental justice through strategic nonviolence.
The Vernal Education Project
The Vernal Education Project is a long-term effort to create a comprehensive education and support network that can bolster and sustain grassroots progressive social change movements in the United States. The project is described in Randy Schutt’s great book...
Learning and mobilising for community development: A radical tradition of community-based education and training
‘Learning and Mobilising for Community Development’ introduces the reader to different ways of thinking about, and organising community-based education and training within different settings. Stories from the global south and north illustrate approaches to...