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Another example is Seeds for Change's guide to creating publicity and outreach materials (2017), which helps the reader challenge their own assumptions. Seeds for Change have also created a useful guide to facilitating inclusive meetings (2009), which describes techniques like go-rounds (going around the group and asking everyone's view in turn), active listening (splitting into pairs where each person takes turn to listen to the other for a few minutes without interrupting or
commenting), and small group discussion exercises that distribute input on decision-making more evenly across the group.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
Lenin saw that the workers’ spontaneity had specific strengths and potentials that the Social Democrats of the time needed to seize upon in their organizing. In the language of Vygotsky, we could say that the spontaneous consciousness of the workers was within a zone of proximal development for developing a stronger class consciousness and moving a socialist revolution into being.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
To understand all groups as containing privilege is the essence of this
construction: “No one is off the hook since we can all claim to stand as oppressor and oppressed in relation to someone else” (Razack, 1998, p. 47).
Pedagogy for the Privileged
Ann Curry-Stevens
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