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Haedicke, Susan – Research in Drama Education, 2020
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a Florida-based human rights organisation, has significantly improved working conditions for migrant farmworkers on large-scale produce farms in the United States, in part, through its adaptation of applied theatre strategies used in its worker-to-worker popular education programme. The farmworker-devised…
Descriptors: Migrant Workers, Theater Arts, Popular Education, Social Responsibility
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Hery Fajeriadi; Muhammad Zain; D. Dharmono; Bimo Aji Nugroho; F. Fahmi; Antung Fitriani – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2024
Developing learning tools based on local potential is necessary because it directly relates to students' daily lives. One of them is a Popular Science Book (PSB), which highlights the potential of gastropods in coastal areas as a subject for observing biodiversity. The implementation of assessments and the value of students' critical thinking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, High School Teachers, Science Instruction
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Boughton, Bob – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2020
When the Australian Association of Adult Education (AAAE) was established in 1960, Australia was locked into a global conflict between capitalism and communism, known as the Cold War. With anticommunism at fever pitch, AAAE's founders who were fighting to retain some influence with Australian universities and with government funding authorities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational History, Social Systems
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Fejes, Andreas; Aman, Robert; Nyström, Sofia – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2021
Popular education has a long history in Sweden, dating back to the mid-1800s and having developed in close relationship with the state. This relationship has been sustained over the years by the way popular education is spoken of as being "unique"--as being complementary to formal education. In this article, we focus on how the…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Folk Schools
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Langdon, Jonathan; Cameron, Sheena; Krieger, Natalie; Shani, Alhassan – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2021
Participation by its very nature is iterative, meaning Participatory Action Research (PAR) must be responsive to the way participation manifests and what actions emerge from this participation. In the article that follows, we share the complex and intertwined stories of PAR in action in two social movement contexts in Ghana, as well as the…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Social Action, Foreign Countries
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O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee – Gender and Education, 2022
This essay draws from four years of ethnographic fieldwork with women activists in self-defined Paulo Freirean-based popular education schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Rather than leaning on the traditions of education activism, modeled on Freire's class-based emancipatory vision, the women in this study sought to turn popular education's focus…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Activism, Feminism, Popular Education
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de Freitas Ermel, Tatiane; Hernández Huerta, José Luis – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2022
In the 1970s and 1980s, the social and professional imaginaries of education, sociopolitical conceptions of it, and educational practices in Spain, began to be influenced by certain elements specific to critical popular education, which had developed in Latin America during the "long 1960s." Paulo Freire's work was particularly prominent…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Clergy
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O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2020
Popular educators are encountering students' past trauma and dealing with how to engage ethically with social issues through "difficult knowledge" (Britzman 1998). The force of their curriculum provides the education community the ability to learn from their social conditions and share in the difficult knowledge experienced among them.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum, Social Problems
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Hendricks, Natheem; Mati, Shepi – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
This article makes a contribution to understanding human rights peer education in the South African context and the extent to which such provision could enable participants to develop a critical understanding of human rights and xenophobia.
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Stranger Reactions, Peer Teaching, Teaching Methods
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Steer, Ashleigh L. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
This paper discusses insights from a larger study of popular educators' deployment of Freire's pedagogical principles during facilitator training. The paper focuses on data from two facilitators and attempts to examine how popular education principles are applied in two different socio-economic and political contexts, Canada and South Africa.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Theory, Popular Education, Facilitators (Individuals)
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Holst, John D. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2021
This article presents the results of a descriptive case study of the Union School of the Chilean nongovernmental organization (NGO) Alejandro Lipschutz Institute of Science (ICAL-Spanish acronym). The study contributes to the field of adult education by providing a contemporary example of what Gramscian pedagogy can look like. Theoretically, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Adult Education, Working Class
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Frances Image – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2024
This paper explores the current challenges of Catholic popular education in Latin America, with a focus on Ecuador. It identifies the current economic and political context -- threats to democracy and economic crises -- that affects the social fabric as well as challenging educational outcomes exacerbated by the pandemic. It focuses on Fe y…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Religious Schools, American Indian Education, Barriers
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Rival, Laura – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
In contribution to a body of scholarship that examines teaching as a form of learning, the paper addresses a central question: What can be learnt from organised mobilisation to educate in communities eager to strengthen their unique biocultural heritage? The question is explored through an examination of two grassroots education projects in Latin…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Ethnography, International Organizations, Teaching Methods
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Asif J. Wilson – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2024
This case study explored a pedagogical reinvention and extension of Paulo Freire's popular education approach. To do so, the author drew on interview data with program participants and reflections of his own experiences as one of two adult educators in a yearlong Fellowship program for high school graduates. Relationships, relevance, revolution,…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Teacher Attitudes
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Heidemann, Kai A. – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2019
This special issue of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning is a great opportunity to bridge two areas of scholarship that are in close proximity to one another, but have generally failed to establish systematic dialogues and exchanges. These domains, of course, are comprised of educational scholarship devoted to the study of 'adult' and…
Descriptors: Social Action, Activism, Social Theories, Popular Education
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