Power over Pollution (POP) is E2I2’s community-centered
data education and date literacy curriculum series. POP is grounded in
principles of environmental justice and based on Paolo Freire’s critical
pedagogy which treats the learner as a co-creator of knowledge. Therefore, POP
does not use traditional top-down educational teaching tactics. Rather, POP
instructors use interactive, hands-on activities, and real-life case story
telling produced with and by the community. POP is structured on health
behavior change theory with a built-in evaluation to assess the achievement of
learning outcomes.
The overall objective of POP is to
improve knowledge about different types of pollution and its connection to
health, environmental data monitoring, and the self-efficacy and skills to
translate data into individual, household, and community action to improve
health and wellbeing.