As long as there have been occupying powers, there has been organized resistance. Many of these resistance movements, particularly the anti-colonial armed liberation struggles of the Global South, incorporated liberatory education programs as a strategy to build critical consciousness within their movements and amongst the masses. This study group is a comparative study of these movements and their use of education programs as political strategies of liberation.

We will begin the first study session by examining the characteristics of these education programs and the political context from which they emerge. The second session will focus on how these education programs shape the process and outcomes of resistance movements. We will spend our third study session analyzing and reflecting on the global impact of these projects and their place in the global liberation movements. We will then wrap up the last study session by reflecting on our observations and the possibilities for schooling in a liberated context.

Virtual study group with Hana Dinku, Director of the Lealtad-Suzuki Center for Social Justice (LSC) at Macalester College