Links to Tools & Organs
Sites / links to organisations doing popular education.
Most of these have free down-loadable materials.
www.thechangeagency.org
The Change Agency is an independent social movement education initiative.
www.trainingforchange.org
For over 20 years, Training for Change has provided activist training for groups standing up for social, economic, and environmental justice
http://www.trapese.org
TRAPESE stands for ‘Taking Radical Action through Popular Education and Sustainable Everything!’
Our work involves interactive workshops, games, films, trainings, and action/campaign planning sessions. We also produce resources and write on various issues.
http://www.hesperian.org
Great materials on health related subjects with a popular education point of view. Publishers of the legendary ‘Helping Health Workers Learn’, compendium to ‘Where there is no doctor’.
http://www.trainingfortransformation.org.za
This is a programme designed for community workers / activists, run at the Grail Centre in Kleinmond, Western Cape
http://www.justassociates.org
On this site you find publications from JASS work that deal with popular education in different ways. Including Making Change Happen: Power, and Making Change Happen: Citizen Engagement and Global Economic Power
http://www.popednews.org/resources.html
Connecting popular and community educators and activists to resources to improve their educational work
http://highlandercenter.org
Popular education, participatory research and cultural work. Highlander has an extensive archive for research.
http://www.catalystcentre.ca
The “Catalyst Centre One-Stop Pop-Ed Shop Worker Co-op†is a collective of educators committed to democratic, social justice education and community development
http://www.buildthewheel.org
Useful links to information (such as food security), resources, events.
For example, ‘Edlib Lab is an online “laboratory†for finding, discussing and developing social justice teaching materials.’
http://www.beyondthechoir.org
A forum for grassroots mobilisation’ – useful articles, links and information on the use of social media
http://populareducationnow.wordpress.com/
“A site is for anyone with an interest in education as a tool for radical social change.â€
"Popular Education in the College Classtroom" (Section 4 of The Making of a Popular Educator by Larry Olds)
Counting Our Victories Popular Education and Community Organizing by Denise Nadeau
A Popular Education Handbook by Rick Arnold and Bev Burke
A New Weave: popular education in canada and central America by Ric Arnold, Deborah Barndt, and Bev Burke
Naming the Moment Political Analysis for Action - A Manual for Community Groups by Deborah Barndt with Carlos Freire, Illustrator.
Ready for Action: A Popular Theatre Popular Education Manual by Jennifer Anderson, Jennifer Michol, Joshua Silverberg.
Getting the Community Into the Act: 72 Participatory Activities for Field Workers and Trainers Prepared by Pat Ellis
http://www.southernersonnewground.org/?cat=11
Southerners On New Ground (SONG): LGBT&Q resources:
http://cec.vcn.bc.ca/cmp/index.htm
Community Empowerment Collective
http://cec.vcn.bc.ca/cmp/hbmob.htm
Handbook for mobilisers
http://communitymonitoring.org/about-toolkit/
toolkit on community-based monitoring
http://www.popednews.org/downloads/Under%20the%20Radar%20Abstract.pdf
http://www.popednews.org/downloads/tree_of_knowledge.pdf
activity on knowledge-production
http://www.popednews.org/downloads/planning_with_poped.pdf
Planning Educational Activities with Eight Overlapping and Interlock Popular Education Principles
http://www.popednews.org/downloads/question_circle.pdf
improving presentation and lectures
http://groundup.org.za/sites/default/files/PeoplesLawJournal2013.pdf
http://www.changeproject.org/technical/hivaids/stigma.html
HIV/AIDS stigma popular education manual