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.
Author(s): Nesha Z. Haniff
Series: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 362
City: Singapore
Series Editor Introduction
Book Description
Acknowledgments
Praise for The Pedagogy of Action
Contents
List of Figures
1: An Introduction to the Theoretical Foundation of the Pedagogy of Action
A Reflexive Turn: A Little Girl in Guyana Hears the Name Marx
“Dan Is the Man in the Van”
Che Guevara
Mao Tse Tung, the Barefoot Doctors
I Shade My Skin Pink
The Structure of Scientific Revolution
Paulo Freire
Feminist Theory and Race
Barbara Christian
John Gwaltney
bell hooks
The Gender Consciousness Project
Blaze a Fire
The Organic Intellectual and the Pedagogy of Action
SEWA and Ela Bhatt
Works Cited
Websites
Part I: The Pedagogy of Action
2: The Small Activist Writes
The History of the Pedagogy of Action
South to North
The HIV Epidemic and Its Status as a Social Movement
The Module
First We Begin with a Story
HIV
Always a Story
The Science Lesson
The Four Ways of Transmission
AIDS
FACTS
LUCK
Teaching in the Field
First Teach Backs, U.S. and Abroad
The Pedagogy of Empowerment
Works Cited
Websites
3: Race and Study Abroad
Meeting People
On Location
The Pedagogy of Action in Action
Language for an Oral Module
Selection of Work Sites
Johannesburg/Soweto
Durban/KZN
Cape Town
Zululand
Impact
Photos
Works Cited
Websites
Part II: In Our Own Words: POA Students Write
4: In Nesha’s Classroom: Lessons from the Pedagogy of Action
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
In Nesha’s Classroom: Lessons from the Pedagogy of Action
Teaching for the Dispossessed
Teaching Toward Liberation
Teaching to Gozar
Conclusion: Teaching with Love
Works Cited
5: My Homecoming: Deconstructing My Education in POA Jamaica Home of My Immigrant Parents, June and Dudley
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
My Homecoming: Deconstructing My Education in POA Jamaica Home of My Immigrant Parents, June and Dudley
Works Cited
6: Radical Narrative Traditions: Communal Storytelling as Praxis for Liberation
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
Radical Narrative Traditions: Communal Storytelling as Praxis for Liberation
Radical Narratives, Political Stories
Co-intentional Education and Narrative Praxis in the Pedagogy of Action
Learning to Hear Groundcover’s Voice
South Africa: The Path Toward Praxis
Investing in Our Narratives and Our Humanity
Works Cited
7: Peer Education Programs: Process as Power
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
Peer Education Programs: Process as Power
Photo Credits
Works Cited
8: In the Beginning, Was the Word and the Word Was Black
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
In the Beginning, Was the Word and the Word Was Black
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
“White is a state of mind.”
Racism: An Inconvenient Truth
Perfection Is the Enemy of Good
Let the Church Say Amen
Works Cited
9: Final Dispatch: Epiphanies That Gradually Mold and Shape Us
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
Final Dispatch: Epiphanies That Gradually Mold and Shape Us
Works Cited
10: Shaping the Path of POA in South Africa
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
Shaping the Path of POA in South Africa
Works Cited
All Photos © Fazela Haniff
11: How POA Shaped My Work as an Artist Teaching Opera to Children in Diverse Communities
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
How POA Shaped My Work as an Artist Teaching Opera to Children in Diverse Communities
Introduction: A Voice Performance Student Goes to Europe
The loveLife and the Importance of Performance in POA
Rain Dance and the Tradition of Black Music-Making
How Music Brought Trust in Vulindlela
Heartland Sings, My Beginnings as a Teacher, and Arts Integrated Residencies
OMA and My Introduction to the AIR Program
The “Happy” Emotion Lesson
What I Think It Means to Truly Teach
Conclusion: “The Truth Is Often Frightening”
Works Cited
12: A Clearing in the Woods: Translation and Ownership Aspects of the Pedagogy of Action, in a Dance Composer’s Idiomatic Language
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
A Clearing in the Woods: Translation and Ownership Aspects of the Pedagogy of Action, in a Dance Composer’s Idiomatic Language
Can the Dance Teach?
The Brown Dance Project Performing HIV Prevention Study Dance Movements
The Brown Dance Project Performing HIV Prevention Study Dance Repertory
Skills Evaluation
Conclusion
Works Cited
13: Ke rena baeng, re kgopela go raloka le lena: Of Uninvited Help and Other Audacities
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
Ke rena baeng, re kgopela go raloka le lena: Of Uninvited Help and Other Audacities
Who Calls? Who Responds? Politics of Help
Abandonment
Neglect
Sustainability
Works Cited
14: Consciousness as Gift, Burden, or Method? Reflections from India
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
Consciousness as Gift, Burden, or Method? Reflections from India
Getting Schooled
It’s Not About HIV
At the University
In the Mirror
Conclusion, for Now
P.S. October 2020
Works Cited
15: The Spirit of POA
Introduction by Nesha Haniff
The Spirit of POA
The Divinity of the POA
Preparation
The Micromanagement/Orchestration of the POA
Reflection
Ubuntu: Love, Humanity, Humility, Civilization
The Place and Its People
The Divinity of the POA
Works Cited
16: Sithembiso Mntambo Nkosi: Organic Intellectual
The Memory I Carry Is the Political Discussion We Had by Sithembiso Mntambo Nkosi
Amazondi High School in Nkandla
It Helped Us Translate Scientific Terms in Our Native Language that Our Own People Could Understand by Sithembiso Nkosi
Questions
Works Cited
Websites
Epilogue
Appendix: Names of POA Participants 2000–2015
