{"id":347,"date":"2020-12-14T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-kreidy\/?page_id=347"},"modified":"2020-12-14T22:04:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T03:04:43","slug":"ella-baker-participatory-democracy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-kreidy\/ella-baker-participatory-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Baker &#8211; Participatory Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Charles Payne\u2019s journal article, \u201cElla Baker and Models of Social Change\u201d explains the extensive work Ms. Baker put forth fighting against racial injustices. Since childhood, Baker was surrounded by a supportive community that inspired her later work to encourage herself and others to have a sense of self-value and strength (Payne, 1989, p. 886). That security, stemming from within, enables individuals to be leaders on their own; which underscores another one of Ella Baker\u2019s key points: that developing leadership among other people should precede the development of people who are interested in being leaders (Payne, 1989, p. 892). Meaning, decentralize traditional leadership so that every individual has access to their own version of self-determination. In doing so, individuals&#8211;especially younger peoples&#8211;are less dependent on one singular&#8211;usually older&#8211;leader (Payne, 1989, p. 893). As Ella Baker said, \u201cstrong people don\u2019t need strong leaders\u201d (Payne, 1989, p. 893). The personal strength and confidence unlocks the freedom that many people yearn for through the leadership of other people (Payne, 1989, p. 893). Baker believed, \u201cthe very idea of leading people to freedom is a contradiction in terms&#8230;freedom requires that people be able to analyze their own social position and understand their collective ability to do something without relying on leaders\u201d (Payne, 1989, p. 893). <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Payne\u2019s journal article, \u201cElla Baker and Models of Social Change\u201d explains the extensive work Ms. Baker put forth fighting against racial injustices. Since childhood, Baker was surrounded by a supportive community that inspired her later work to encourage herself and others to have a sense of self-value and strength (Payne, 1989, p. 886). That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1174,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-kreidy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-kreidy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-kreidy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-kreidy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-kreidy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-kreidy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-kreidy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}