I propose a discussion on the PowerPoint "Self-transcendence in Paulo Freire". I used the PowerPoint for my lecture at the Workshop "Social Thought as Conversation: Management Thinking as A New Upanishad of Life and an Ecology of Hope", which took place at the Indus Business Academy of Bengaluru on 17 July 2023. I am working on a study which corresponds to the PowerPoint. The study will be published in some months. The PowerPoint contains some notes of mine. All the pages of the PowerPoint which do not have any design are my notes.
Commented already in academia/edu, my dear Gianluigi Segalerba
The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side. ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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I chose the following paragraphs from the reference I mention below and I do hope get some success in shedding light on Freire's views on teaching and educational dimensions.
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Samacá Bohórquez, Yolanda
A Self-Dialogue with the Thoughts of Paulo Freire: A Critical Pedagogy Encounter
HOW Journal Volume 27, Number 1, pages 125-139 https://doi.org/10.19183/how.27.1.520
"Reflection, dialogue, conscientização, praxis, critical engagement, and transformation are compelling ideals that critical pedagogy (henceforth CP) advocates. CP seeks praxis, constituted in “action and reflection” (Freire, 1985). CP involves “thinking about what and why you’re going to do before you do it and then reflecting on what you did, how you did it, and how it turned out” (Monchinski, 2008, p. 1). Freire’s passion for social justice is a principle underlying critical pedagogy. This principle is revealed when teaching and learning become human experiences; when personal, social, political, and cultural dimensions also take a place in educational contexts, and when all these are extended to communities to unveil their oppressions. Thus, in Freire’s social pedagogy: “education is one place where the individual and society are constructed, a social action which can either empower or domesticate students” (Shor, 1993, p. 25)."
"At the same time, I was enrolled in a Master’s Program that transformed my perspective towards English and ELT; it was thought-provoking and invited me to recognize those dominant ideologies that have not allowed us to be who we really are. It was a seminar on CP that provoked reactions and attitudes that have taken me to rethink, relearn, and redefine not only myself as a Spanish-English speaker but also as a language teacher educator, then, in an initial language teacher education program. These encounters with preservice teachers were really significant for getting to know more about them and why they had made the decision to become teachers. A few of them, I remember, had thought of becoming teachers; however, some others at the very beginning were enrolled in the program because of English, but ended up loving this profession and confronting the social and cultural contexts they came from and would like to go back to, assuming and taking with them that critical understanding of education. That was revealed in the research study I conducted in"
"CP is happening and taking several forms; one of these forms is self-reflexivity and self recognition, looking at myself and inviting my students to look at themselves to reconsider previous assumptions associated with ELT. Their real classrooms and school contexts might also contribute to question conventional understandings of theory versus practice, as well as our roles and positionings in education that cannot be legitimized through the reproduction of only Western theories. This realization entails a more complex interaction and dialogues around teachers and students in the diversity of our local contexts."
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