Sourcebook Daupan '99 Event Characteristics of an Educator Pop-Ed. Context Challenges to Pop-Ed. After four days of intensive plenary discussions, workshop exercises and reflection sessions, we have reached a consensus on the following concerns that bear upon the future of popular education in the Philippines. Popular education prioritizes the poor, marginalized, deprived and oppressed.
Popular education is a continuous process of learning and unlearning.
It is always self-critical. It recognizes, accepts and respects the distinctness, uniqueness and validity of each one s context, and the diversity and plurality of their world views. It fosters active interchanges among the different rationalities. Popular education enables people to articulate their own stories, ask their own questions, seek their own answers and define their own directions. Popular education advocates participatory learning processes.