education

if it leads to people's increased control over what knowledge is valid and useful and to people's concerted action to improve their conditions

historically this alternative view of development training primarily involved from five core elements in development work:

development training as: a crucial step in the social preparation for more critical and responsible participation a continuing effort to strengthen local capabilities to sustain such actions

as the practice of freedom by attaining critical awareness men and women can transform their object conditions paolo freire 1974

the emergence of people's participation in many united nations documents in the mid 1970s also generated interest in a type of alternative education for the masses which would prepare them to actively participate in the development process

training is an integral part of raising people's consciousness and facilitating collective action

it inspired by the possibility of offering education outside the formal school structure and the need to provide skills needed in order to become productive citizens

it's popular in the sense that it aims to reach the majority the last privilege and poor sectors of society

is also given to trainings which are functions to one's socioeconomic concerns rather than treating it as a mere theoretical undertaking

is greatly influenced by the concepts and methods of adult education nfe literacy campaigns catechism conscientization and the nationalist mass movements in many third world countries

the practice moved on to south america in most cases this type of education is linked with the land issue among peasants and urban poor

the term ______ in the training context refers to the personal development of individuals

merging individual concerns with group interest gradually moving from immediate issues to community issues

aims to synthesize group analysis of the situation as well as strengthen skills for sustained and systematic action

education historically served to contradictory functions a tool of colonial and elite powers to subjugate the people's consciousness and a potent instrument with which the masses fight for oppression

is a key process in the empowerment of people

empowerment creates self reliant communities it is development by for and of the people

the soviet unions labor schools in the early 1900s the french modern school movement in the 1920s china's education production schools in the 1940s and cubas literacy program in the 1950s

is a process of acquiring assimilating and internalizing cognitive motor or behavioral inputs for their effective and varied use when required leading to enhance capability

is learning to change the performance of people doing their jobs franco 1990

a new wave of alternative education spread over the continent adopted in a number of southern african state namely south africa namibia zimbabwe botswana and tanzania

it is the basic objective of all the training and development activities

current development practice demands a type of training which is partisan to the poor a type which is:

operating and managing production processes running organizations

adult are viewed as active learners

one of the basic goals of empowerment is to enable trainees to make themselves better than they were before they were trained

capacitation in latin america and animation rurale in africa

paulo frier literacy training programs among peasants in brazil

popular education has three equally important and complementary dimensions

literacy numeracy creativity critical analysis and dependent judgment

participatory development can best work within a three pronged approach

empowerment creates self reliant communities it is development by for and of the people it involves:

it derives its focus from adult education the individuals unique and functional experiences as basis for education

is it the systematic acquisition of knowledge skills rules concepts and the formation of attitude values that result in improved performance in various work environments goldstein 1990

political awareness class consciousness cooperation solidarity collective action

is to improve the skills or provide knowledge to workers whom immediately need to improve their work performance on their present job nadler 1989

if it negates people's experiences and view them as passive servers of change

it aims to enhance people's success and assets to control their livelihood and their future conscientization participation in organization from the seeds for building people's countervailing power that can transform the current oppressive social structures

the practice expanded to central america

the process of raising people's critical awareness of reality

the same phenomenon is observed in many poor countries. friere 1970 differentiated between domesticating and liberating education based on his experiences in latin america

the term popular education gained recognition it was sustained partly because of the people power fever which swept the country at the time