PopEd Toolkit

Popular Education is a great tool, but as I found when I was producing the The Ozone Protection Workshop Kit, print medium places severe limits on it.

• The first limitation is that in producing the kit, there was not time to test all of the exercises.
• This kit was not written for all audiences, and many of the exercises could be written for different ages and settings.
• There are also other exercises that could have been included if there was more time and space available before publication.
• This kit was written with an emphasis on ozone campaigns, but the exercises could and have been used for many other purposes.

On the web however, there are opportunities for the exercises to evolve to become more useful for a greater number of people. If you have any exercises that you would like to submit to this page, please send them to me and I will put them online. Steps for Analysis

• Identify and name the issue of concern
• organize information in such a way as to clarify the problems and the possible solutions and their implications
• trace the general causes or effects of the issues, as well as focussing on specific factors of identified concerns
• see the connections between personal problems and larger social forces and the connections between the forces themselves
• see social problems within the context of political economic forces and examining their interconnections anc systematic causes
• Gain a larger perspective on the issues by combining individual understanding and experience into a collective understanding
• understand the dynamics of power relationships and the role of power in effective action for social change
• discovering new questions that need asking

What is strategy

• suggesting possible actions
• identifying the forces and factors contributing to the success or failure of a particular action
• helping groups examine the array of forces to see if the negative forces can be reduced and the positive forces increased.
• visioning looking at the future as well as exploring the consequences of that vision
• helping groups make decisions on action plans
• framework for analysis and action
• develop a sense of community
• develop and maintain a working group

asses the real situation