Resources
Examples of militant decolonial education above: Black Panthers Community School, PAIGC’s pilot schools, Cuba’s literacy program, Highlander Center
Un/Re-Learning (A People’s History of Schooling) Guiding Questions [PDF]
Using readings and archival material, as a study group we explored the relationship between education and settler colonialism, prisons, war/militarization, labor, and imperialism to develop a material analysis of historical and present day conditions of the US education system and colonial/neo-colonial education internationally. How have people used militancy and popular education to resist educational subjugation and organize themselves towards self-determination?
This document offers our readings for our four themes throughout the study group, which took place in the fall to winter of ‘24-’25, as well as guiding questions we used as a collective to better understand and critically engage with the material.
Learning Terrarium Resource Toolkit [PDF]
An excerpt fr
Tips for supporting across generations (annotated by Homegrown)
An exercise/reflection on comfort zones
> possibly keep these as separate exercises?
Radical History Club -- worksheet from teach-in
Sonic Playgrounds Sound Walk Exercises
＊ Further Learning ＊
What is political education?
Political education:
- Moves away from the “mastery” of topics. Instead it develops skills for critical thinking, curiosity, critique, and complex reasoning.
- Sees education as a way to not only learn about our struggles, but within them. How does what we learn relate to our unique and constantly evolving lives, histories, conditions, and experiences?
- Transforms information towards concrete action, putting knowledge to practice and generates active change.
RESOURCES
＊ Fred Hampton on the importance of political education [Video]
＊ An introduction to educators Amilcar Cabral & Paolo Friere and their perspectives on revolutionary education
“...A revolutionary education is not content with simply replacing the content to be passively consumed. Rather, learners must have an opportunity to critically reflect on their own thought process in relation to the new ideas. For Freire [and Cabral], this is the path through which the passive objects of colonial indoctrination begin to become active subjects.“＊ From Freedom to Liberation: Politics and Pedagogy in [The Black Panther’s] Movement Schools
“We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.“
-- The 5th point of the BPP’s 10 Point Program
＊ Militarized Geographies | An example of what political education can look like
What is adult supremacy?
RESOURCES
＊ The Cunning of the Adult Supremacist by Colby Tootoosis
＊ No! Against Adult Supremacy [PDF]
＊ Youth Liberation Archive | An example of youth resistance against adult supremacy
The Youth Liberation Organization was founded in 1970 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor provided news and analysis in publications, and mailed them to High School radicals and visionaries around the USA and the world. The organization struggled “towards the goal of more power for young people.”
What do we mean by the “carceral and colonial logics of schooling”?