teach-ins
Educational activist gatherings
Teach-ins are extended educational gatherings organized around a political or social issue, typically held on college campuses.
Originating in 1960s protests against the Vietnam War, they feature lectures, debates, and discussions meant to inform and mobilize participants: Faculty organized teach-ins about climate policy.
The format implies grassroots activism rather than official curriculum.
Formal instructional talks
- seminarsStructured educational discussions
- workshopsGroup learning sessions
- discussionExchange of ideas
- facultyInherent power or ability
students · panels · presentations · curriculum · awareness · information · debate · dialogue
Stationary protest tactics
- VietnamSoutheast Asian coastal nation
- antiwarOpposed to armed conflict
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- activismDirect effort for reform
campus · occupation · rally · resistance · dissent · solidarity · boycott · mobilization
Decade after the fifties
- BerkeleyBay Area university city
- MichiganNorthern Great Lakes state
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
- SDSChemical hazard paperwork
draft · radicalism · Columbia · Chicago · generational · Chomsky
lectures
Formal instructional talks
- seminarsStructured educational discussions
- workshopsGroup learning sessions
- discussionExchange of ideas
faculty · students · panels · presentations · curriculum · awareness · information · debate · dialogue · experts
sit-ins
Stationary protest tactics
- VietnamSoutheast Asian coastal nation
- antiwarOpposed to armed conflict
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
activism · campus · occupation · rally · resistance · dissent · solidarity · boycott · mobilization · walkout
1960s
Decade after the fifties
- BerkeleyBay Area university city
- MichiganNorthern Great Lakes state
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
SDS · draft · radicalism · Columbia · Chicago · generational · Chomsky
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- Dissentprotest art, civil disobedience, dissidents, protest songs, protest poetry
- grassrootsgrassroots, activist, volunteer, volunteers, volunteering
- Sixties Activismanti-war movement, anti-war protests, campus protests, counterculture, draft resistance
- higher educationuniversity, college, degree, diploma, graduate school
- protestsprotest, demonstration, protest march, demonstrations, rallies
teach-inssilent protests
Voiceless acts of defiance
candlelight vigils · die-ins · hunger strikes · symbolic gestures · sit-ins
teach-insindoctrination
Systematic uncritical belief instillation
book burnings · censorship · blackouts · disinformation campaigns · gag orders
teach-inspolitical apathy
Indifference to governance
disengagement · willful ignorance · complacency · conformity · silent majority