Alternative Education & Empowerment
CASA
of Maryland
CASA has grown and branched out over the years into
an organization offering an impressive variety of programs supporting the
Latino community in southern Montgomery County, MD. I currently teach
English in one of these programs. This is unfortunately quite an old
website (1996) with a lot of information that is very out of date. Call or
stop by to find out what we are doing now.
Highlander Center
Highlander,
an organizing and education center, is famous as a catalyst for social change in
the South, and for the way music from Highlander propelled the Civil Rights movement, and
earlier, the labor movement. Their founder,
Myles Horton, was an important theorist and practitioner of Popular Education.
They are now engaged in supporting Latino
communities in their struggles with industries that
depend on cheap undocumented labor. Be sure to check out
the links page here.
Institute for People's Education and Action
A network of groups sharing a philosophy similar to Highlander's ~ Be sure
to check out their bookshop!
Transformative Learning Centre (TLC):
This center in Toronto looks to be on the cutting edge of progressive
Transformative Learning theory. They also offer: TLC Summer
Classes
Empowerment Resources.com~ This set of webpages by a person in our local area offers an enormous variety of resources for personal, social, and ecological transformation. It will take a while to figure out what's here. Books are for sale, and connections are provided to many groups and projects. Their vision and values seem to have a lot in common with ours.
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Please send us your
suggestions for more links to Alternative Education projects and groups!