North American
American
Friends Service Committee, Western Mass. Office/ National
Office
Western Mass. AFSC focuses on peace education
and social justice through work on nonviolence training, study courses and
dialogues on economic justice, campaigns against U.S. military intervention,
and education and action to combat racism, classism, and homophobia.
The
Applied Research Center
ARC is a public policy, educational and research
institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change.
ARISE for Social
Justice
94 Rifle St., Springfield, MA 01105/ 413-734-4948/michaelannb@hotmail.com
BorderLinks
BorderLinks is a not-for-profit organization
that conducts travel seminars focusing on the issues of Mexican border communities.
People from the north and south come together to explore global issues in
the stark reality of the border environment. We offer a firsthand experience
with all it's complexities.
Bougton Place (Highland,
NY)
150 Kisor Rd., Highland, NY 12528 / 914-691-7578 / clare@ulster.net
The principle value of Boughton Place is the sacredness of all and the need
for communities to shape themselves so that persons are respected and the
earth valued. Programs include conflict resolution, mediation, psychodrama
workshops, community playback theatre, and study circles.
John
C. Campbell Folk School (Brasstown,
NC)
Campbell Folk School is a totally non-competitive schools that
serves the local and expended communities through year-round classes, concerts,
and dances focusing on 1-2 week residential courses in crafts, folk music,
folk dance, and folklore.
Camp
Sister Spirit (Ovett, MI)
A folk school whose mission is to eradicate
hatred and differences through education and interaction with our neighbors.
Our aim is to build a self-supporting structure to identify and create opportunities
for meaningful and situation-specific social justice, and to put genuine social
change within the reach of every member of the community.
Casa Latina (Northampton,
MA)
140 Pine St., Florence, MA 01062/ 413-586-1569
Catalyst
Centre (Toronto, ON)
The Catalyst Centre celebrates and promotes
innovative learning, popular education, research and community development
to advance positive social change
Center for Popular
Economics (Amherst, MA)
PO Box 785, Amherst, MA 01004/413-545-0743/cpe@acad.umass.edu
CPE is a collective of political economists whose goal
is to put useful tools in the hands of people fighting for social change.
Through workshops and summer Institutes, CPE aims to demystify economics and
give social change advocates a framework for understanding the economy which
provides alternatives to the usual mainstream and conservative analyses and
"facts."
Center
for Popular Education and Participatory Research (Berkeley, CA)
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.
Cobscook
Community Learning
Center (Lubec, ME)
The CCLC's mission is to enrich the lives of
local community members through grassroots collaboration using the arts, the
rich social fabric and the natural surroundings as the medium.
Community
Service, Inc.
CSI is a nonprofit educational organization
where ideas and practices concerning community are developed, evaluated, and
shared. Locally and regionally, our work involves collaborative community
building projects as well as classes, workshops, and conferences.
El
Barrio Popular Education Program (New York, NY)
EBPEP is a community-based, not-for-profit
organization that provides adult education and workforce development programs
for New York City's Latino community. Programs include Adult Basic Education,
English as a Second Language, video,computer training, and community involvement.
Escuela Popular
Norteña (Valdez, NM)
Box Y, Valdez, NM 87580/ 505-776-8432/ ojota2000@hotmail.com
Escuela Popular Norteña is a folk school
for radical movement and political education against cultural, racial, sexual,
and class oppression. Our focus in on Latino-Chicano communities. In our workshops,
we aim to learn from each other our different strategies of resistance to
oppression and to find ways to support each other.
Freire
Center (Minneapolis, MN)
The Freire Center does popular education workshops,
leadership development, and action research for liberation and social change.
Green Mountain Popular
Education Project (Greensboro, VT)
91 W. Wheelock Rd., Greensboro, VT 05842/
802-533-2296/ wmtnfarm@plainfield.bypass.com
GMPEP works with individuals and community
groups who are struggling against oppression, and supporting efforts to take
collective action to shape out destinies. It seeks to create educational experiences
that empower people to take democratic leadership towards fundamental social
change.
Headlines
Theatre (Vancouver, BC))
The Headlines Theatre Company produces community
specific, issue-oriented theatre. While we call our community work THEATRE
FOR LIVING, it is based on Brazilian Director Augusto Boal's Theatre of the
Oppressed.
Highlander
Research and Education Center (New Market, TN)
does highlander link work??
The Highlander Center aims to overcome poverty,
bigotry and economic injustice in Appalachia and the South. We believe that
true social change goes beyond dealing with the symptoms of inequality and
gets to root causes and building grassroots movement for change led by those
most affected by oppression.
Hindman Settlement
School (Hindman, KY)
Box 844, Hindman, KY 41822 / 606-785-5475 / hss@tgtel.com
Hindman's mission is to provide education opportunities for the children of
the local community, keep them mindful of their heritage, and to provide community
service activities through providing and supplement services that are not
being provided by the public schools and other agencies.
Institute for Human
Rights and Responsibilities (Galena, OH)
PO Box 416, Galena, OH 43021 /. 614-965-5118 / Djehnsen@infinet.com
The aim of IHRR is to provide short and long term residential leadership education
programs; publish books and information and participate in ongoing development
of social movements that promote adult leadership education for nonviolent
conflict resolution and democratic social change.
Institute
for Popular Education, Brecht Forum (New York, NY)
The program uses popular education methods in classes and
workshops designed to provide activists with basic analytical tools, help
them examine organizing strategies in a larger context, build leadership skills,
deepen awareness of the issues affecting New Yorkers on a daily basis, and
increase their involvement in the political life of the city. [On main page,
clik "About Us" to see info on this program.]
Lindeman
Center (Chicago, IL)
The Lindeman Center is a resource-sharing place,
a gathering place for educator/activists to combine their skills, knowledge
and experience in search of solutions, a Center for problem-posing and strategy-building
with organizations and groups in Chicago committed to collective and democratically-determined
action.
Mixed
Company (Toronto, ON)
Mixed Company is a theatrical company that
specializes in "Forum Theatre" techniques. We offer workshops and services
to corporations, community organizations and educational institutions as well
as individuals and groups.
National
Coalition of Alternative and Community Schools
Our mission is to unite and organize a grassroots
movement of learners and learning communities dedicated to participant control,
liberation from all forms of oppression, and the pursuit of freedom.
Pedagogy
and Theater of the Oppressed (Omaha, NE)
PTO's mission is to challenge oppressive systems
by promoting critical thinking and social justice. We organize an annual meeting
that focuses on the work of liberatory educators, activists, and artists;
and community organizers. Our work is based on the ideologies and works of
Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal.
Praxis/Economic
Justice Project (Chicago, IL)
The Praxis/Economic Justice program seeks to
address economic justice through the process of education, action, and reflection.
The goal of the program is to develop leadership skills through long and short-term
workshops that will equip participants to analyze their reality and organize
and to take meaningful action for economic justice.
Radical
Education Community
REC was created to foster a more unified community
within the southern peace movement --particularly Texas -- and to encourage
better understanding of the different methods of activism that make up any
major social movement.
Project
South (Atlanta, GA)
Project South is a broad-based community-driven
membership organization that develops and conducts popular political and economic
education and action research for organizing and liberation. We develop indigenous
popular educators and movement leaders from grassroots and scholar-activist
backgrounds, bringing them together on the basis of equality to engage in
building a bottom-up movement for social and economic justice.
Self
Education Foundation (Philadelphia, PA)
SEF is a nonprofit organization led by young
women committed to supporting individual and community empowerment through
self-education. To this end we utilize the tools of grantmaking, community
organizing and outreach. We believe that self-education is the practice of
freedom.
Urban
Action School (Seattle, WA)
The Urban Action School: starts with the real
interests and experiences of participants; stimulates conversations between
people who don't normally get together; offers informal, participatory, and
accessible education in leadership, social justice, economics, history, and
organizing; uses a liberating theory of race, class, gender, and authority;
works to change power relationships in society; inspires a sense of hope and
creates opportunities for action.
International
Association for
World Education (based in Viby, Denmark)
Valorevej 59, DK -- 4130, Viby, Denmark
/ 45 46 19 48 39
AWE is an international organization
of individuals and institutions who believe that learning about ourselves
and our communities is most effective and satisfying when education reflects
an awareness of our intimate relationship to the world as a whole. AWE's strategy
promotes intercommunication and interaction among individuals and institutions
which are working to comprehend and to spread awareness of the global aspects
of education and stress the special contribution of a voluntary, people's
organization in working towards their goals.
Foreningen for Folkehøjskoler
(The Association of Danish Folk High Schools, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Nytorv 7, 1450 Kobenhavn K, Denmark / 33
13 98 22 / ffd@grundtvig.dk
International
Council for Adult Education (based in Toronto, ON)
ICAE is a global partnership of adult learners
and adult educators and their organizations, and others who promote the use
of adult learning as a tool for informed participation of people and sustainable
development. In the emergence of knowledge-society the ICAE promotes lifelong
learning as a necessary component for people to contribute creatively to their
communities and live in independent and democratic societies. ICAE is comprised
of the following regional councils --
Arab Network
for Literacy and Adult Education
Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education
European Association for the Education of Adults
Caribbean
Regional Council for Adult Education
Consejo
de Educación de Adultos de America Latina
North
American Alliance for Popular and Adult Education
Pan African Association
for Literacy and Adult Education
International
People's College (Helsingor, Denmark)
IPC's aim is to create a meeting place for
people with different cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds. IPC tries
to foster fellowship, consideration of others, and a spirit of global citizenship,
because they believe that better understanding among people leads to peace
among nations. IPC offers liberal education in a residential setting where
cross-disciplinary and creative subjects are offered by an international staff.
The school's working language is English and the students come from all over
the world.
Popular
Education for People's Empowerment (PEPE, Quezon City, Philippines)
PEPE is dedicated to the promotion of "pop-ed"
theories and practices as tools towards people's empowerment. As part of its
commitment to human development, PEPE provides "pop-Ed" services to a diverse
set of people: urban poor, peasants, fisherfolk, professionals, women, indigenous
peoples, etc. Its services are focused on enhancing these sectors' capacities,
knowledge, skills, and attitudes as community educators.
Viitakivi
International Center (Hauho,
Finland)
An international study center for adults, meeting place for people of many
cultures, religions, and ideologies, aiming to give personal relevance to
contemporary issues and promoting personal development through English and
Finnish.
some other organizational
directories
Catalyst Centre
Popular Education Mapping Project
(with a particular
emphasis on Canadian organizations)
Center for
Popular Education and Participatory Research Site List
Pop Ed Toolkit Organizational
Links
Study Centers and Progressive Organizations
(on main page, click "Links")
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