Education out of traditional schooling systems, aiming at transforming society
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Critical pedagogy
Major works
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Critical Pedagogy Primer
Learning to Labour
Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life
Theorists
Paulo Freire
Henry Giroux
Peter McLaren
bell hooks
Antonia Darder
Joe Kincheloe
Shirley Steinberg
Paul Willis
Ira Shor
Pedagogy
Anti-oppressive education
Abolitionist teaching
Anti-bias curriculum
Antipedagogy
Multicultural education
Teaching for social justice
Humanitarian education
Inclusion
Public sphere pedagogy
Popular education
Feminist composition
Ecopedagogy
Queer pedagogy
Critical literacy
Critical consciousness
Critical theory of maker education
Concepts
Praxis
Hidden curriculum
Consciousness raising
Related
Reconstructivism
Critical theory
Ecological empathy
Frankfurt School
Political consciousness
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Popular education is a concept grounded in notions of class, political struggle, critical theory and social transformation. The term is a translation from the Spanish educación popular [es] or the Portuguese educação popular [pt] and rather than the English usage as when describing a 'popular television programme', popular here means 'of the people'. More specifically 'popular' refers to the 'popular classes', which include peasants, the unemployed, the working class and sometimes the lower middle class. The designation of 'popular' is meant most of all to exclude the upper class and upper middle class.
Popular education is used to classify a wide array of educational endeavours and has been a strong tradition in Latin America since the end of the first half of the 20th century. These endeavors are either composed of or carried out in the interests of the popular classes. The diversity of projects and endeavors claiming or receiving the label of popular education makes the term difficult to precisely define. Generally, one can say that popular education is class-based in nature and rejects the notion of education as transmission or 'banking education'. It stresses a dialectic or dialogical model between educator and educand. This model is explored in great detail in the works of one of the foremost popular educators Paulo Freire.
Though sharing many similarities with other forms of alternative education, popular education is a distinct form in its own right. In the words of Liam Kane:
"What distinguishes popular education from 'adult', 'non-formal', 'distance', or 'permanent education', for example, is that in the context of social injustice, education can never be politically neutral: if it does not side with the poorest and marginalised sectors- the 'oppressed' – in an attempt to transform society, then it necessarily sides with the 'oppressors' in maintaining the existing structures of oppression, even if by default."[1]
^Kane, Liam (2001). Popular Education and Social Change in Latin America. Nottingham, UK: Russell Press. p. 9. ISBN 1-899365-52-4.
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