Overview
- Tracks the story of the historical and theoretical development of Pedagogy of Action (POA)
- Offers unique access to the POA teaching module which allows readers to learn and teach about HIV and HIV prevention
- Provides a powerful, living example of how an epidemic can be construed as a social movement
Part of the book series: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality (NCUM)
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Pedagogy of Action
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Part II
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Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Pedagogy of Action
Book Subtitle: Small Axe Fall Big Tree
Editors: Nesha Z. Haniff
Series Title: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0801-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0800-2Published: 25 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0803-3Published: 25 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-0801-9Published: 24 November 2022
Series ISSN: 3005-0146
Series E-ISSN: 3005-0154
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 355
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations