The Institute for Community Research (ICR) in Hartford, CT is sponsoring “Crossroads: Critical Issues in Community-Based Research Partnerships”, a national conference that will critically explore issues related to community-based research partnerships, methodology, and methods of dissemination. The conference will take place June 10-13, 2004 in Hartford, CT. (more…)
The popular education conference “From Words to Action” is finally here! The conference will start promptly at 9am on Saturday, April 17 and go until 4pm on Sunday, April 18 (directions to the conference). Don’t miss the cultural session on Saturday evening starting at 4 pm! See the detailed schedule for more information. (more…)
The workshop offers opportunities for those new to community and popular education to meet experienced community and popular educators and to attend trainings in preparation for possible summer internships at popular education project sites internationally. For more experienced educators and organizers, the workshop will offer space for dialogue, network-building, training, and strategizing around complex issues related to community-based education, movement-building, and resource development. (more…)
In April CPEPR and Suzanne Pharr, former director of the Highlander Center in New Market, TN hosted a series of “think tank” sessions with local educators, students and organizers. These “think tanks” were designed to explore the impacts of the right wing movement on educators’ and organizers’ work and to explore possible new avenues for movement building and social change. (more…)
Registration for Teachers 4 Social Justice’s annual educators’ conference is open!”Teaching for Social Justice: From Moments to Movement”, 6th annual conference for Bay Area educators and education activists. Saturday, October 14, 2006, 9:00am until 4:00pm at Mission High School in San Francisco. Mission High is located at 3750 18th Street. (more…)
My name is Mariko Watanabe. I am Program Officer of Japan Pacific Resource Network (JPRN), a nonprofit organization in Oakland. We facilitate exchanges of information and people between Japan and the United States in the nonprofit sector through networking, research and joint endeavors. One of our programs is to provide people from Japan with volunteer experiences in nonprofit organizations in the Bay Area. (more…)
Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, is the political, economic and cultural development and is located on the river Danube (Dunaj in Slovak) offers to the tourist adventure trips Slovakia. Known for centuries in the German-speaking world as Pressburg, and the Hungarians as Pozsony, this was the Hungarian capital from the Battle of Mohac (1526) until the Turks were expelled from the Hungarian plains. Until 1918, the city was Hungarian, German and (more…)
These texts are selected to provide a basic understandingand overview about the theory and practice of popular education and participatory research. We selected texts that we believed would be easy to locate atmost university libraries or online, and tried to balance “classics” withmore recent texts.
Obviously, this list is not exhaustive, and is intended to provide a brief introduction to the topics of popular education and participatory research. We are open to your suggestions too! Please send your ideas for additions/deletions to cpepr@uclink.berkeley.edu.
The Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research (CPEPR, prounounced “sea-pepper”), is a student-initiated center created in January 2000 in the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Education. CPEPR’s mission is to promote and support popular education and participatory research in order to strengthen the participation of everyday people–especially the poor, youth, immigrants, and people of color–in efforts for social justice.
CPEPR has three primary goals: (more…)
Participatory Research is not simply a more participatory method, but an alternative paradigm of research. It can be understood as the mode of knowledge production associated with popular education, theorized and practiced from the perspective that, just as there is no neutral education, there is no neutral research.
Like popular education, participatory research starts from the assumption that knowledge is socially constructed. Participatory research draws upon this expertise by engaging community members in the collective analysis of social problems in an effort to understand and address them.