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Youth Organizing: A Pedagogy of Love (cont.)

“These strategies, also referred to as praxis, includes individual, organizational, and community capacity building strategies such as political education workshops, cultural identity development courses, leadership trainings/opportunities, strategy and action planning sessions, action research, policy development, grassroots organizing, evaluation and strategic planning, and other forms of experiential and constructivist learning. As critical, youth organizing, as a pedagogy of love, includes young people and adult allies believing in the power of young people.

Characteristics of A Pedagogy of Love Organizing Strategy:

 Active listening-The full participation of individuals hearing one another out

 Soul Power- A love and belief in humanity

 Respectful, Reciprocal, Reinventing- Caring, Sharing, Rethinking our thinking

 Truthful and Honest- Integrity in attitude and actions

 Nonjudgemental- Anti-bias and open to opportunity and challenges

Written 6/15/04 by Victor Manuel Perez

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