Training and Popular Education
Overview
Training and popular education are strategies intended to build individual’s and group’s capacity to understand structural racism, practice analyzing and applying, and build confidence and skills to act individually and collectively. Groups using these strategies note that, while they are important components of a comprehensive effort, people should not confuse training with doing the work itself.
An important and useful resource in this area is Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion: A Guide to Selected Programs by Ilana Shapiro, in partnership with Project Change Anti-Racism Initiative, The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change and the Center for Assessment and Policy Development. Dr. Shapiro offers descriptions of several training programs including their theories of change. She also offers questions to guide the selection of a training program (p. 113).
Content in this section also includes descriptions, lessons learned, evaluations and critiques. Also, see Curricula tab for Racial Equity Learning and Transforming White Privilege modules and World Trust Educational Service’s learning films.
Practices
- Anti-Racist Train the Trainers Programs: A Model
- Paper Plate Challenge
- Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion: A Guide to Selected Programs
- An Educator's Guide for Changing the World: Methods, Models, and Materials for Anti-Oppression and Social Justice Workshops
- Occupy the Present, Change the Future Collective Visioning Guide
- Teaching a People's History
- Systems Thinking and Race Workshop Summary
- Preparing to Discuss Michael Brown in the Classroom
- Race to Equity Toolkit for Conversation
- Tools for Organizers, Facilitators and Trainers
- Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
- Exploring Racial Identity Sample Agenda
- Personal Privilege Profile
- Power: A Practical Guide for Facilitating Social Change
- Professional Development Curriculum and Lesson Plans
- Studying Repression and Resistance with A Troublemakers’ Guide: Principles for Racial Justice Activists In the Face of State Repression
- Dismantling Anti-Black Bias in Democratic Workplaces: A Toolkit
- Equity Conversation Guides for Young Leaders and Partners
- Facilitator's Guide for continuous improvement conversations with a Racial Equity Lens
- Anti-Oppressive Facilitation for Democratic Process Making Meetings Awesome for Everyone
- Black Lives Matter at School: Lesson Plans
- Blueprint for Belonging Popular Education Curriculum Resources
- Targeted Universalism: Animated Video + Curriculum
- The 1619 Project Curriculum
- Liberatory Design:Your Toolkit to Design for Equity
- We Charge Genocide Again!
- RaceWorks Toolkit
- Facilitation tools for meetings and workshops
Resources
- Diversity Training: Good for Business but Insufficient for Social Change
- Sharing the Lessons Learned: Reflections on Six Years of Anti-Racism Work
- Social Change or Status Quo: Approaches to Diversity Training
- The National Conference for Community and Justice - Dismantling Racism Institute for Educators Evaluation Report
- Under the Radar: Popular Education in North America
- Building Capacity for Changing Communities
- Anti-Oppression Resources and Exercises
- Showing What We Tell: Facilitating Antiracist Education in Cross-Racial Teams
- Abolish Columbus Day: Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples Resources and Tools
- Introducing Transformative Learning Theory
- Dismantling Racism 2016 Workbook
