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Another term for popular education is problem-posing education. We are getting people together to identify, analyze and figure out how to solve problems.
Popular education has been described as a "pedagogy of the question." (Bruss, Neal, Macedo, Donaldo P. Toward a Pedagogy of the Question: Conversations with Paulo Freire. Journal of Education, v167 n2 p7-21 1985) That's especially true of the starting point.
Et toi? Quand est-ce que tu pars? Elle est ou, ta place? (from Ressources Humaines, Laurent Cantet)
What about you? When are you leaving? Where's your place?
Tu, con que intencion y como pretendes utilizar las tecnicas? (Alforja, Tomo 2, "Advertencia!")
And you, what are your intentions, how do you plan to use these techniques?
Where and how does popular education for union democracy begin?
BOOKS
Books you must have:
Tecnicas Participativas Para La Educacion Popular The best resource book for popular educators, combines technique (lots of activities) with method and embodies the work of popular educators in Central America.
By Matt Noyes, Charley MacMartin, Nick Bedell, Emily Schnee, and Roberta Silver. (Inspired by a chart comparing teaching approaches from Training for Transformation, but without the didactic "here's what we want you to think” approach.)
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"The most important challenge for labor and society in the twenty-first century is the question of democracy."
— Elaine Bernard
Welcome.
Boston, 2000, lunchbreak at a small convention center during a one day conference sponsored by the Association for Union Democracy and Carpenters for a Democratic Union (CDU) for a hundred plus members of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters from Boston and around the US.
