pedagogy
Interview: Organizing to Learn, Learning to Organize
For decades the Highlander Center has been at the heart of some of our country’s most important social movements. In the 1930s it became the official training center for unions in the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the labor federation that organized millions...
Guide to system mapping
A system map is a visual depiction of the relationships between actors within a system. Often, system maps depict flows of information and/or resources. In this four-part blog series, Emily Gate, Srik Gopal, Lauren M. Smith, and Joelle Cook of FSG give guidance, share...
Learning from the ground up: Education for change
Aziz Choudry writes: “Social movements are not only significant sites of struggle for social and political change. They also represent important – albeit contested and contradictory- spaces of learning, knowledge production and research. Acknowledged or not,...
Tailoring resources to support learners with specific impairments
In the context of inclusive teaching practices which enhance the learning of all students, it is useful to know more about the implications of specific impairments and health conditions in order to better meet the needs of learners.
Powercube: Understanding power for social change
Powercube.net contains practical and conceptual materials to help us think about how to respond to power relations within organisations and in wider social and political spaces. This resource is a collective effort, please contact us if you have something to...
How to start a free university
MFU have written a simple manual on how to start your own free university, which takes people through our philosophy (why we started the MFU, and the free uni philosophy more broadly) and provides a simple and accessible guide on how to start a free uni i
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...
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…