“It’s a life-changing point for me”
THEME: Participatory Learning Methods and Popular Education
TITLE: “It’s a life-changing point for me”: Critical consciousness, collective empowerment and global awareness as activist identity change in ‘popular education.’
PUBLISHED BY: European Journal of Psychology of Education
WHO IS THIS FOR: The Youth Global Awareness Programme (YGAP) is a two-week residential ‘popular education’ programme for young, diverse, international, labour movement activists, run by the International Federation of Workers Education Associations (IFWEA) in Cape Town, South Africa. This mixed method study draws on the Social Identity Approach to Education and Learning and proposes that the participatory, peer-to-peer learning during IFWEA’s YGAP leads to activist identity change, where critical consciousness, collective empowerment and global awareness develop as group norms. It will be of great interest to those working in the field of participatory education, worker education and youth activism.
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“It’s a life-changing point for me”