The Pedagogy of Action
Small Axe Fall Big Tree
Published on 25. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXIII, 355 pages
978-981-19-0803-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is the story of teaching consciousness as a requirement for transformations in social justice. In artful narrative, Nesha Haniff traces her own conscientization as a colonized child in Guyana, exploring the cultural and intellectual forces that shape the creation of the Pedagogy of Action. Drawing from Paulo Freire and Ela Bhatt, participants in POA teach an oral HIV education module to marginalized communities in the USA, South Africa and the Caribbean, as the nexus for dismantling traditional pedagogies of race, gender, service and American hegemony. The many challenges of institutional and cultural obstacles, mainly those that excluded poor and black students from overseas travel, required innovation and persistence. The book features essays written by POA students and South African participants reflecting on their own transformations. These essayists are among the hundreds of participants who, over 15 years, in the practice of radical love, grew the Pedagogy of Action.
Winner of the 2023 IARSLCE Publication of the Year Award.
Winner of the 2023 IARSLCE Publication of the Year Award.
Reviews / Votes
"This is an extraordinary book about Nesha Haniff's revolutionary and egalitarian pedagogy and how the Pedagogy of Action transformed her students. She develops Paulo Freire's pedagogy in a novel way, building her own mix of theory and practice in communities in the United States, South Africa and Jamaica. Because it is built around education for the AIDS movement it also has a direct bearing on the pedagogy required to strengthen the movement around Black Lives Matter not only in the US but globally. It is an ode to teaching." (Rupert Lewis, Professor of Political Thought, University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica)"Dr Nesha Haniff's timely book based on her Pedagogy of Action module at the University of Michigan and its immediate and lifelong impact on the students who took the course is a labour of love and commitment to social transformation and the role of educators. It is highly recommended for anyone trying to address inequities and inequalities through building self-reliance. The practical application to HIV prevention efforts in many communities in the US, Africa and the Caribbean is as relevant to Covid-19. If nothing else it will leave you re-energized and inspired to take on the impossible challenges that continue to render some communities more vulnerable than others." (Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Pro Vice Chancellor for African Health University of KwaZulu -Natal, South Africa)More details
Series
Edition
2022 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Publishing group
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
46 s/w Abbildungen
XXIII, 355 p. 46 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
491 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-19-0803-3 (9789811908033)
DOI
10.1007/978-981-19-0801-9
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
11/2022
Springer
€128.39
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Person
Nesha Z. Haniff is a radical educator and the creator of the Pedagogy of Action and the Gender Consciousness Project, both founded in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan. She taught as well in the in the Department of Women and Gender Studies.
Content
Chapter One: An Introduction to the Theoretical Foundation of the Pedagogy of Action.- Part One The Pedagogy of Action.- Chapter Two: The Small Activist Writes.- Chapter Three: Race and Study Abroad.- Part Two In Our Own Words: POA Students Write.- Chapter Four: In Nesha's Classroom: Lessons from the Pedagogy of Action.- Chapter Five: My Homecoming: Deconstructing My Education in POA Jamaica Home of My Immigrant Parents, June and Dudley.- Chapter Six: Radical Narrative Traditions: Communal Storytelling.- Chapter Seven: Peer Education Programs: Process as Power.- Chapter Eight: In the beginning, was the word and the word was Black..- Chapter Nine: Final Dispatch: Epiphanies that Gradually Mold and Shape Us.- Chapter Ten: Shaping the Path of POA in South Africa.- Chapter Eleven: How POA Shaped my work as an artist teaching opera to children in diverse communities.- Chapter Twelve: A Clearing in the Woods: Translation and ownership aspects of the Pedagogy of Action, in a dance composer's idiomatic language.- Chapter Thirteen: Ke rena baeng, re kgopela go raloka le lena: Of uninvited help and other audacities.- Chapter Fourteen: Consciousness as Gift, Burden, or Method? Reflections from India.- Chapter Fifteen: The Spirit of POA.- Chapter Sixteen: Sithembiso Mntambo Nkosi: Organic Intellectual.