This project is the result of a two-day workshop for people engaged in various forms of social activism. The workshop was designed with the purpose to familiarize participants with the principles of anti-oppression education, to train them to facilitate anti-oppression workshops, and to discuss and brainstorm strategies for incorporating anti-racism into everyday life and activism.
Item Description
Facilitation and popular education. Some cultural context. Characteristics of popular education. The role of an effective facilitator. Task and maintenance. What do you need to know to plan a workshop? -- Workshop planning. Naming the moment: Phases and questions. Action/reflection model (The spiral model). Session plan. Key words/definitions -- Activities -- Phase one. Lifeboats description. Name game description. Power flower description. Power flower handout -- Phase two. Body definitions description. Images of power description. Race question sheet description. Race question handout. Unpacking the invisible knapsack description. Unpacking the invisible knapsack handout. Unpacking the invisible knapsack handout revised. A history lesson in racism description. A history lesson in racism handout. Race, class, gender and disabilities and the economic divide description. Race, class, gender and disabilities and the economic divide handout. Race, class, gender and disabilities and the economic divide answer sheet. Newspaper activity description -- Phase three. Oppression tree description -- Phase four. Role play description. Evaluation description. Evaluation handout.
By: Zahra Murad.
Completed for: Community Race Relations Committee; Supervisor: Davina Bhandar, Trent University; Trent Centre for Community Based Education.
Includes bibliographic references.
CAST 481H: Community-Based Research Project.