Popular education

Last updated Aug 15, 2023

• Source: Sources/Design Justice - Book
• Keywords: Cards/permanent notes
• Relevant Notes:
  • Cards/Education lives within a system of domination and liberation
  • Cards/Problem-based learning
  • Cards/Praxis
  • Cards/The goal of education is transformation

Pedagogies of Cards/Design justice must be based on this.

1. Education is never neutral: “it either maintains the current system of domination, or it is designed to liberate people;""
2. Relevance: “Pop Ed engages with issues that people care deeply about;”
3. Problem-posing: “all participants have the capacity to think, question, and act, and Pop Ed is about identifying the root causes of problems that people want to change;”
4. Dialogue: “no one knows everything, but together we know a lot, if we listen to each other;”
5. Praxis: “real learning takes places through the cycle of reflection and action to transform the world;”
6. Transformation: “Pop Ed is about engaging communities to transform individuals, communities, the environment, and the broader society.10”