Community-based Learning and Social Movements

Download or read book Community-based Learning and Social Movements written by Mayo, Marjorie and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of Far-Right populism poses major challenges for communities, exacerbating divisions, hate speech and hate crime. Mayo shows how communities and social justice movements can effectively tackle these issues, working together to mitigate their underlying causes and more immediate manifestations. Showing that community-based learning is integral to the development of strategies to promote more hopeful rather than more hateful futures, Mayo demonstrates how, through popular education and participatory action research, communities can develop their own understandings of their problems. Using case studies that illustrate education approaches in practice, she shows how communities can engineer democratic forms of social change.