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Cowhey, Mary – Teachers College Press, 2022
What if the families of students most impacted by the opportunity gap somehow had the power to organize whatever activities they felt would best help their children succeed? That's the question that began Families with Power/Familias con Poder (FWP), a grassroots organization of low-income students and caregivers in Northampton, MA. Through…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Academic Achievement
Workers Educational Association, Sunderland (England). Northern District. – 1986
Four adult educators from the North East/Brazil Project spent three months in Brazil in 1986 on "pilot" education ventures. The areas selected for collaboration were health and safety for lay officers and induction/leadership training for women. "Methods" courses were selected as the means to train lay officers as discussion…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Assertiveness, Females, Foreign Countries

Hammond, John L. – Journal of Education, 1991
The Salvadoran educator J. Portillo describes popular education practiced in El Salvador in the midst of civil war. Salvadoran popular education is organized by members of the community who receive it and is usually led by nonprofessional educators. Most popular education is in literacy or at the elementary level. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Community Involvement, Educational Objectives
Rogow, Debbie – 2000
The Manuela Ramos Movement began in the 1970s when seven women in Lima, Peru, started meeting each Tuesday to reconsider their assumptions about everyday life. By 1980, the group formed a nongovernmental organization whose strategy was to train women community leaders in Lima's barrios through workshops focusing on the following themes: identity…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Change Agents