Popular Education

The paper describes the elements for success in helping girls to use technology to empower themselves, and provides concrete examples of effective initiatives in school and community settings. It details the role that caring adults play in identifying appropriate resources and providing positive experiences which engage girls in deeper technology skills and applications.

Developped by Jo-Anne Lee, Dept.of Women’s Studies, University of Victoria, Photovoice is a research method that you will use to document your lives. The camera will be your tool to capture images that represent meaningful messages that you would like to convey.

The photovoice activity gets participants to think about:

This article reflects on the use of popular theatre to investigate racialized minority girls’ lived experiences and processes of identity formation in a predominantly white urban Canadian city
(Victoria, BC). The chapter draws implications for using popular theatre to investigate girls’ daily

The International Theatre of the Oppressed Organisation facilitates the development, networking and exchange of those who use (and wish to use) popular theatre techniques in their programming.

Creative Alternatives is a non-profit Creative Arts Therapies Center who use art, drama, music, and dance, to raise awareness, propose alternatives, inspire healing, and motivate critical engagement in social change.

3 days of intensive training in the applied use of theatre to foster literate, passionate and critical analysis.

"The Center for Collaborative Action Research links educators, researchers, and community members with the goal of creating deep understanding of educational problems in the school context and to encourage evidence-based reasoning to solve these problems."

"PTO is a not-for-profit (IRS 501C3) organization with the following mission: To challenge oppressive systems by promoting critical thinking and social justice. We organize an annual meeting that focuses on the work of liberatory educators, activists, and artists; and community organizers."

Youth Action Network, 2002.

Pilot tested by youth from across Canada, Youth Talk Back is designed to provide students with the opportunity to learn how to become more active media consumers and to raise their awareness about the relationship between media and sexuality.Funded by Health Canada, Youth Talk Back can be used in classrooms and community-based sexuality education settings. 2000.