Arianne,

Perhaps the best literature on this may be out of the community 
organising literature. Try authors such as Meredith Minkler, Nina 
Wallerstein and Barbara Israel. 

Of course, reading Freire is a must.

Nader 


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From: Maxime Girard <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, April 17, 2005 5:38 pm
Subject: [CLICK4HP] popular education

> Hello,
> 
> I would first ask you to apologize for my english.
> 
> I am a student in community health and I want to do my master 
> about popular education in fight against poverty community 
> organisms. I use the MEPACQ (mouvement d'éducation populaire et 
> d'action communautaire du Québec) definition of autonomous popular 
> education (it's in french, pardon!) :
> 
> " L'ensemble des démarches d'apprentissage et de réflexion 
> critique par lesquelles des citoyens et des citoyennes mènent 
> collectivement des actions qui amènent une prise de conscience 
> individuelle et collective au sujet de leurs conditions de vie ou 
> de travail, et qui visent à court ou à long terme, une 
> transformation sociale, économique, culturelle et politique de 
> leur milieu ".
> 
> It is really a mean of empowerment. Popular education as defined 
> is guided by four principles :
> 
>  1.. To aim at social transformation, and to work on causes of 
> social problems.
>  2.. To reach people who do not control their living end working 
> conditions.  3.. To favorise the population to take charge of the 
> group and the process of learning.
>  4.. To adopt a process of learning that leads to collective actions.
> I wonder if someone knows any litterature on the links between 
> popular education (as a process) and health?
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
> Ariane Courville
> 
> 
> 
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