Scholar, activist, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate the relationships between education, politics, imperialism, and liberation. This volume is a testament ...to the works of Paulo Freire in the field of Education as well as the life of the man: a "story of courage, hardship, perseverance, and unyielding belief in the power of love." In this comprehensive collection, prominent intellectuals including Noam Chomsky and Donald Macedo reflect on Freire's "politics of liberation" and add important new dimensions to the revolutionary, innovative ideas that Freire bequeathed to a generation much in need.
This book contains 15 chapters, each by different authors, commenting and expanding on the educational philosophy and work of Paulo Freire. The following are included: "Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of ...Possibility" (Peter McLaren); "Studying the Media: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream" (Noam Chomsky); "Scientism as a Form of Racism" (Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo); "Liberating the Critical in Critical Theory: Marcuse, Marx, and a Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Alienation, Art, and the Humanities" (Charles Reitz); "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Nationalism in the Global Age" (Henry Giroux); "On 'Having Differences' and 'Being Different': From a Dialogue of Difference to the Private Language of Indifference" (George David Miller, Mark Roelof Eleveld); "Politics of Explanation: Ethical Questions in the Production of Knowledge" (Thomas Heaney); "Upstream in the Mainstream: Pedagogy against the Current" (Robert Bahruth, Stanley Steiner); "The Prairie Is Wide: Conrack Comes to 'The Rez'" (David Gabbard); "Teaching in Our Underwear: The Liabilities of Whiteness in the Multiracial Classroom" (Maryann Dickar); "Authority Is Not a Luxury: 'Courageous Dialogue' in the Feminist Classroom" (Kimberly Kay Gunter); "Authentic Multiculturalism and Nontraditional Students: Voices from the 'Contact Zone'" (Juan Flores); "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action: The Ideologies of Gender and Peer Response Sessions Perceived by a Teacher-Researcher" (Nancie Burns-McCoy); "Cultural Studies (Alone) Won't Do It: Strategic Reform of Academic Departments in the University" (Scott Shepard); and "Synthesizing Gramsci and Freire: Possibilities for a Theory of Transformative Adult Education" (Peter Mayo). The chapters include reference lists, and the book is indexed. (KC)
Scholar, activist, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate the relationships between education, politics, imperialism, and liberation. This volume is a testament ...to the works of Paulo Freire in the field of Education as well as the life of the man: a "story of courage, hardship, perseverance, and unyielding belief in the power of love." In this comprehensive collection, prominent intellectuals including Noam Chomsky and Donald Macedo reflect on Freire's "politics of liberation" and add important new dimensions to the revolutionary, innovative ideas that Freire bequeathed to a generation much in need.
Upstream in the Mainstream Bahruth, Robert E.; Steiner, Stanley F.
Freirean Pedagogy, Praxis, and Possibilities,
2000
Book Chapter
I must recognize that students cannot understand their own rights because they are so ideologized into rejecting their own freedom, their own critical development, thanks to the traditional ...curriculum. Then, I have to learn with them how to go beyond these limits, beyond their own learned rejection of their rights.
I "played" so much at being a teacher when I was an adolescent that when I taught my first classes in an orientation course at the Osvaldo Cruz School of Recife, in the 1940s, I had a hard time ...distinguishing between the imaginary professor and the real one and I was happy in both worlds.
This report describes two out-of-class techniques used to promote communicative competence among community college students of English as a second language (ESL). Dialogue journals provide regular ...written communication between language students and their instructors. The journals can be used for validating, encouraging, and reinforcing students' creative impulses and allowing teachers to individualize linguistic input while discussing particular points of individual sociolinguistic interest. Students are encouraged to read teachers' comments on two levels--for meaning and for an understanding of error corrections. Often, errors other than consistent ones are not corrected in order to promote spontaneity and self-correction in writing. Interactive errands include: site visits and team quests, in which students go singly or in pairs to gather information about historical sites or community organizations; human bingo, requiring students to get signatures of several people fitting descriptions related to a topic; and idiom searches, in which the ESL student must interact with several Americans to negotiate the meaning of an idiom. An in-class orientation precedes each interactive errand to equip students with competence and confidence concerning vocabulary, questioning etiquette and terminology, grammar, cultural features relating to the errand, and practice. (MSE)
Scientism as a Form of Racism Freire, Paulo; Macedo, Donaldo
Freirean Pedagogy, Praxis, and Possibilities,
2000, 1999
Book Chapter
If it were not for the amnesia prevalent within U.S. society, it would be very easy to understand that the present cruel and frontal attack on affirmative action, immigrants, and unwed mothers and so ...forth is a mere continuation of a historical context where Blacks were "scientifically" relegated to a subhuman existence that, in turn, justified the irrationality of their alienating reality as slaves. After the abolition of slavery and with it the eradication of laws that protected the existence of slavery, the dominant white ideology resorted to "science" as a means not only to demonize but also to dehumanize Blacks in the United States. These race-based ideological mechanisms were very prominent during the Reconstruction, as succinctly described by a Black historian of the era, W.E.B. DuBois:
