Health Education
The North Carolina Farmworker Health Program believes in using innovative approaches to providing health education to farmworker families and
promotes the use of "popular education" methods to present health information.
Popular education is a form of adult education that encourages learners to participate in the learning process by engaging them in critical thinking,
reflection, and problem-solving; motivating them toward individual behavior change and/or collective social action.
It is "popular" in the sense of being "of the people." Popular education emerged in Latin America in the 1960s-
1970s; Paulo Freire is its best-known exponent. Key characteristics of popular education are as follows:
everyone teaches and learns, so leadership is shared; starting with learners' experiences and concerns; high participation; creation of new knowledge; critical reflection;
connecting the local to the global; and collective action for change.
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Career and Vocational Education Columbus OH
Health Education Resources
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