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Popular education is learning that starts from people's own lives and builds collective power to change them. This site keeps the South African traditions of that work in usable order. Here is one way in.

1. Get the idea

Read What is popular education? - one page, with a printable PDF - then browse the definitions educators around the world have given it.

2. Run something

Pick a tool and use it. Open a meeting with an energiser, plan action with How to plan a campaign, or work through a full handbook. Everything downloads free.

3. Go deeper

The library holds the articles, manuals and histories behind the practice - filter by the topic you are working on.

4. Find your people

Popular education happens in organisations and movements. The directory lists who is doing the work; the galleries and recordings show and tell what it is like.

This archive was rebuilt from the original populareducation.org.za so the work can continue. Use it, copy it, pass it on.