Pedagogy of Action

Nesha Z. Haniff is a radical educator and the creator of the Pedagogy of Action and the Gender Consciousness Project, both founded in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan. She taught as well in the in the Department of Women and Gender Studies.

• Chapter One: An Introduction to the Theoretical Foundation of the Pedagogy of Action.- Part One The Pedagogy of Action.- Chapter Two: The Small Activist Writes.- Chapter Three: Race and Study Abroad.- Part Two In Our Own Words: POA Students Write.- Chapter Four: In Nesha’s Classroom: Lessons from the Pedagogy of Action.- Chapter Five: My Homecoming: Deconstructing My Education in POA Jamaica Home of My Immigrant Parents, June and Dudley.- Chapter Six: Radical Narrative Traditions: Communal Storytelling.- Chapter Seven: Peer Education Programs: Process as Power.- Chapter Eight: In the beginning, was the word and the word was Black….- Chapter Nine: Final Dispatch: Epiphanies that Gradually Mold and Shape Us.- Chapter Ten: Shaping the Path of POA in South Africa.- Chapter Eleven: How POA Shaped my work as an artist teaching opera to children in diverse communities.- Chapter Twelve: A Clearing in the Woods: Translation and ownership aspects of the Pedagogy of Action, in a dance composer’s idiomatic language.- Chapter Thirteen: Ke rena baeng, re kgopela go raloka le lena: Of uninvited help and other audacities.- Chapter Fourteen: Consciousness as Gift, Burden, or Method? Reflections from India.- Chapter Fifteen: The Spirit of POA.- Chapter Sixteen: Sithembiso Mntambo Nkosi: Organic Intellectual.