1. POPULAR EDUCATION

2. “BANKING” METHOD
SEES PARTICIPANTS AS EMPTY VESSELS THAT MUST BE FILLED WITH INFORMATION
ENCOURAGES DEPENDENCY

3. POPULAR EDUCATION
SEES PARTICIPANTS AS SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE REAL WORLD
ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO DEVELOP THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND USE IT TO TAKE ACTION TO CHANGE THEIR SITUATION

4. Paulo Freire ( )

5. KEY PRINCIPLES
NO EDUCATION IS EVER NEUTRAL. It either maintains the status quo or it changes an existing situation. Education is either domesticating or liberating.

6. KEY PRINCIPLES
EDUCATION MUST BE RELEVANT. It must be about issues of importance NOW to participants. It should cover “hot issues”.

7. KEY PRINCIPLES
EDUCATION MUST BE PROBLEM- POSING. Participants are recognized as thinking, creative people with capacity for action. Education is seen as a common search for solutions to problems.

8. KEY PRINCIPLES
EDUCATION MUST BE A PROCESS OF DIALOGUE. Dialogue involves respect. It should not involve one person giving knowledge to another, but rather people working with each other.

9. KEY PRINCIPLES
EDUCATION MUST LEAD TO ACTION. Dialogue as a co- operative activity must strengthen the community and lead it to collective action. There must be a continuing reflection-action cycle.

10. KEY PRINCIPLES
EDUCATION MUST LEAD TO CHANGE. It must start with conscientization and eventually lead to transformation.

11. KEY PRINCIPLES
EVERYONE TEACHES AND EVERYONE LEARNS IN A COLLECTIVE PROCESS OF CREATING NEW KNOWLEDGE.

12. PROCESS START WITH THE PEOPLE’S OWN EXPERIENCES
MOVE FROM EXPERIENCE TO ANALYSIS
MOVE FROM ANALYSIS TO COLLECTIVE ACTION TO CHANGE THE SITUATION
REFLECT AND EVALUATE

13. FRAMEWORK CONTEXT – the participants’ perspective, their life story
CONTENT – the consciousness rasing and conscientization objective
METHOD – provocative, participatory, dialogical, collective

14. TECHNIQUES PROBLEM POSING / SOLVING PARTICIPATORY DIALOGICAL
EXPERIENTIAL
COLLECTIVE
CREATIVE

15. POPULAR EDUCATION empowerment