A radical holistic edge-fusion learning space with a collection of really useful collaborative tools for making social-ecological just change.
A radical holistic edge-fusion learning space with a collection of really useful collaborative tools for making social-ecological just change.
Workshops
HEdge Space
A Holistic Do-it-Together Tool kit.
Radical creative & holistic workshops to support people bring about just change, together
Radical Learning for Action
Radical Learning for Action to bring about
Social-Environmental Just Change
Everything needs to change! Co-Researcher KOB
“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”. Paulo Freire. 'The Politics of Education'
Radical adult education practices are group-based learning for action processes which aims to empower people to effect social and environmental justice change. In this project, creative and nature-based learning for action workshops were co-developed with members of the public using a participatory action research approach, which originated from the Latin American popular education movement.
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Feminist and Radical Learning (Pedagogies): A few Descriptions.
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Radical Adult & Community Education: Feminist-Critical Practice Concerned with the nature and purpose of knowledge and its capacity to oppress or liberate people
Praxis Diagrams
Key practices and terms
Emancipatory learning
Radical and feminist traditions of learning for action
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Some key concepts and processes underpinning this research project are:
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Problem posing education, consciousness raising and praxis
Problem posing education is
consciousness raising is
praxis is
REALLY USEFUL PRACTICE ( REALLY USEFUL TOOLS AND WORKSHOPS)
Praxis Journey Ripple Trail: This is how multiple praxis workshops generate actions which lead to new actions.
As Antonio Gramsci highlighted, 'the greatest trick of oppressive power is to convince people that change is not possible', the job of radical learning is to critically reflect on that idea, stimulate our social imagination around the alternatives are to systems of injustice, and raise consciousness of our collective capacity to bring about alternatives that better serve people. It is hopeful education. In the words of Raymond Williams 'To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing'. Â
Environmental Adult Education!!!????? Holistic Embodied Environmental Adult Education
HEdge Space is a holistic radical environmental adult and community education research project. Radical adult education practices are group-based learning for action processes which aims to empower people to effect social and environmental justice change. In this project, creative and nature-based learning for action workshops were co-developed with members of the public using a participatory action research approach, which originated from the Latin American popular education movement.
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The workshops use a holistic edge-fusion of local small-scale making workshop practices based on; community, feminist and popular education; the arts and crafts movement, community arts, arts & ecology, interventionist art; permaculture, STEAM education and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). They aim to offer an inclusive, holistic, creative and dynamic approach to bottom-up community organizing in a participatory democracy to bring about cultural, political and economic systems that support life to flourish. These workshops are about supporting people and communities to find their agency and claim power, and keep creativity, hope, and the belief that change is possible at their core.
As Antonio Gramsci highlighted, 'the greatest trick of oppressive power is to convince people that change is not possible', the job of radical learning is to critically reflect on that idea, stimulate our social imagination around the alternatives are to systems of injustice, and raise consciousness of our collective capacity to bring about alternatives that better serve people. It is hopeful education. In the words of Raymond Williams 'To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing'.
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These workshops can be used by individuals, groups, practitioners and researchers involved in grassroots and social movement organizing, NGO's, community and sustainable development, and various education and art contexts. For example, adult and community education, community and participatory arts, education for sustainable development, social studies, sociology, public engagement, participatory action research, transdisciplinary learning and research, policy making, activism, formal and non formal education.
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The workshops use a fusion of local small-scale making workshop practices based on; community, feminist and popular education; the arts and crafts movement, community arts, arts & ecology, interventionist art; permaculture, STEAM education and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). They aim to offer an inclusive, holistic, creative and dynamic approach to bottom-up community organizing in a participatory democracy to bring about cultural, political and economic systems that support life to flourish. These workshops are about supporting people and communities to find their agency and claim power, and keep creativity, hope, and the belief that change is possible at their core. As Antonio Gramsci highlighted, 'the greatest trick of oppressive power is to convince people that change is not possible', the job of radical learning is to challenge that social myth and bring about change. It is hopeful education. In the words of Raymond Williams 'To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing'. Â