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Popular Education Resources

• Adams, F. Unearthing the Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander. WinstonSalem, NC: John Blair Press, 1975.
  
  
• Arnold, Rick, and Bev Burke. Educating for a Change: A Handbook for Community Educators. Toronto: Doris Marshall Institute. (Doris Marshall Institute, 64 Charles Street East, Toronto, Ont. M4Y1T1) This handbook offers very practical suggestions and reflections on the practice of training and educating for social change, using the popular education methods.
  
  
• Freire, Paulo and Ira Shor. A Pedagogy for Liberation. South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey Publishers, Inc., 1987.
  
  
• Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Continuum Publishing Company, 1970. This is Freire's classic statement of his approach to education. The text is challenging but well worth the effort.
  
  
• Freire, Paulo. The Politics of Education. Continuum Publishing, 1968.
  
  
• GATT Fly. Ah-hah! A New Approach to Popular Education. Between the Lines, 1983. The 'Ah-hah' seminar is a method for popular education which helps participants to clarify their understanding of political and economic systems. Rather than a "how-to" manual, it is a sharing of methodology developed over many years.
  
  
• Horton, Myles and Paulo Freire. We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change. Temple University Press. Probably the easiest to read, this is a collection of dialogues between Horton and Freire on life, education, and social change.
  
  
• Highlander Research and Education Center, 1959 Highlander Way, New Market, TN 37820, 615-933-3442. http://www.highlandercenter.org/  The Highlander Center is a leader in popular education and works with people struggling against oppression, supporting their effort to take collective action to shape their own destiny. The Center also publishes books, working papers, tapes and videos.

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