3063.0: Monday, October 22, 2001: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral Session

Popular Education

In this session, presenters will describe the use of popular education in four different programs. They will demonstrate how popular education methods are used in specific sectors (e.g. the healthcare sector, meatpacking and poultry industries) and to address a variety of issues (eg. health and safety in the global economy, ergonomics). Presenters will also discuss how they use popular education in different settings (e.g. with union and labor-management health and safety committees, to develop conferences, and in vocational education programs). Each presenter will analyze the challenges and successes in moving people to take action in specific programs. The session will conclude with a participatory discussion about how to promote the use of popular education in occupational health work.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Describe at least two popular education methods 2. List the criteria for a successful popular education program 3. Analyze obstacles to promoting activism among workers
Presider(s):Leslie Nickels, MEd
12:30 PMHealth and Safety in the Global Economy: Conference Development
Joseph P. Zanoni, MILR, Leslie Nickels, MEd, Lorraine Conroy, ScD, CIH
12:55 PMPopular education: moving people to action
Linda Delp, MPH, Joseph Zanoni, MILR, Susan Cameron, Deborah Rosenstein, Diane Factor, MS, Dorothy Wigmore
1:20 PMThe Fight For Our Lives, How We Won Safer Needles
Bill Borwegan
Sponsor:Occupational Health and Safety
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA