Popular education
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Popular education is a concept grounded in notions of class, political struggle, and social transformation. The term is a translation from the Spanish educación popular or the Portuguese educação popular and rather than the English usage as when describing a 'popular television program,' 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 endeavors 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.
See also
- Adult education
- Adult literacy
- Conscientization
- Critical consciousness
- Critical pedagogy
- Experiential education
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Place-based education
- Praxis (process)
- Queer pedagogy
- Rouge Forum
- Special education and inclusive classrooms
- Teaching for social justice
