ABSTRACT
Just over a decade ago as I interviewed organisers from a number of fields for my book Teachers Organizing for Change, I was struck by the connections between what they did and what teachers do every day, a similarity captured in the words of community organiser Ernesto Cortès.
Organizing is teaching. Like any organizer, a teacher stirs curiosity and imagination, connects to people and what's important to them, and teaches them how to acquire the capacity to pursue their inclinations and their imagination. Organizing is getting people to understand the meaning of things and how the world works — and then acting cooperatively on that understanding.
(Cortès, 1996: 7)