Word: e4a
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That age of starry-eyed optimism about the changes that students could effect inevitably came to an end. E4A, like many other organizations, began to question the paternalistic and elitist ways in which students had engaged in social service. Too often, students set up their own projects with little or no appreciation or regard for the community that they had entered. A need grew for a greater sensitivity concerning the way that students got involved, their functions and their roles...
WHEN EDUCATION for Action (E4A) began in 1966, few people questioned the ways that students were working for social change. Coming into existence in the middle of a great liberal/Peace Corps/Vista era, it was easy to be optimistic about the possibilities of a program like E4A...
...hope to enable more students to become involved in action which can bring about significant social change," said Judith Newman, project director of Education for Action (E4A). Previously, the group funded volunteer proposals for summer projects but did not give financial backing to its student volunteers who worked in programs during the school year...
...past, summer projects which E4A has funded have included filmmaking classes for Navajo Indians, drug education programs in Bedford-Stuyvesant, rehabilitation by community craftsmen of low-income housing in the South End, distribution of fortified wheat to 52,000 Tunisians, and draft counseling in Cambridge...