Gender in Popular Education: Methods for Empowerment

This book aims to demonstrate how feminist popular education has developed in recent decades. According to the writers, it is an important form of social activism, in dialogue with major strands of feminist practice and theory.

This book is a collection of critical reflections on feminist adult education work in grassroots organisations, development projects, formal institutions and community education programmes in a wide variety of countries including South Africa, India, the United States, Canada, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia. It explores the education methodologies and learning strategies that lead to women’s empowerment.

The contributors come from a variety of positions in the range of feminist discourses and explore the use personal narrative, experiential analysis, theoretical contextualisation and evocative description to explain their methodologies.

Topics include:

• Training gender-sensitive adult educators in South Africa
• Embodying feminist popular education under global restructuring
• Holding the space: gender, race and conflict in training
• Women Learning in Appalachian grassroots organisations
• "Some good long talks": cross-cultural feminist practise