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  1. Ah-Hah!
    A New Approach to Popular Education

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    AH-HAH seminars are designed to organize groups of comman interests, especially workers, to come to a common understanding.
  2. At the Escuelita Zapatista, Students Learn Community Organizing and Civil Resistance as a Way of Life
    The Class Was Stopped Twice: The First Time to Emphasize the Importance of Discipline in Their Organization

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    From August 11-17, the Zapatistas brought more than 1,500 people into their communities to attend the Escuelita Zapatista, the Little Zapatista School. According to a February comunicado by the EZLN, in a class entitled Liberty According to the Zapatistas: Autonomous Government I, "our compas from the Zapatista bases of support are going to share the little we have learned about the struggle for freedom, and the [the students] can see what is useful or not for their own struggles."
  3. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  4. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  5. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  6. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  7. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  8. Critical Paths
    Organizing on health Issues in the community

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  9. Critical pedagogy
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    a teaching approach that attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate: in other words, a theory and practice of helping students achieve critical consciousness
  10. Educating for a Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
  11. The Extraordinary Myles Horton
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
    Myles Horton is the founder of the Highlander Folk School, a centre for leadership training in Tennessee. The Highlander trains organizers for unions, civil rights organizations and local citizens' groups. In this article, Ellen Gould and Murray Dobbin talk to Horton to find out what his experience has taught him about organizing for social change.
  12. First Person Plural
    A Community Development Approach to Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Smith provides an account of his experiences and addresses the ways of building an effective and democratic orgranization to bring about social transformation. Useful for those interested in adult education, community development and political action.
  13. Folk high schools
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Institutions for adult education for working-class and poor people, typically based on a popular education model.
  14. Freire, Paulo
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy. (1921-1997).
  15. Highlander Research and Education Center (Highlander Folk School)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A leadership training school and cultural centre located in New Market, Tennessee which provided training to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and many other organizers and activists.
  16. Introduction to the Media Guide
    Resource Type: Article
    An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
  17. Looking at the Conference
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
  18. Managing Volunteers, Building Consensus, Nurturing Creativity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1987
    Techniques for managing volunteers, staff and board members for positive results; how to make everyone more effective; and methods to reduce conflict while building consensus.
  19. Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
  20. Naming the Moment: Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
    A review of Naming the Moment: Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups.
  21. A New Weave
    Popular Education in Canada and Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central America and other solidarity networks.
  22. A New Weave
    Popular Education in Canada and Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central American and other solidarity networks.
  23. Organizing in a Small Town
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
  24. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
    Labour Day issue

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
  25. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
    Back to School

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
  26. Our two cents' worth...
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Analysis of the Popular Education Conference
  27. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Freire maintains that every human being, no matter or "ignorant" or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of looking critically at the world in a dialogical encounter with others, and that provided with the proper tools for such an encounter, can gradually perceive his personal and social reality and deal critically with it.
  28. Popular education
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An educational technique designed to raise the consciousness of its participants and allow them to become more aware of how an individual's personal experiences are connected to larger societal problems.
  29. Popular Education Conference
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    The level of discussion was brought down to actual examples and practice quite in contrast to the sloganeering and shallow definition of terms that is typical of most formal intra-left gatherings.
  30. Popular Education Conference - Overview
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A report on the Popluar Education Conference.
  31. A Popular Education Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  32. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  33. Red Menace #1
    Volume 1, Number 1 - February 1976

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    The first issue of The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist newsletter.
  34. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
  35. Reveille for Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
  36. Understanding Power
    The Indispensable Chomsky

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.


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