t r u t h o u t | Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken O... - 5 views
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Not only does she not have any experience in education and is totally unqualified for the job, but her background mimics the worst of elite arrogance and unaccountable power
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For Freire, pedagogy was central to a formative culture that makes both critical consciousness and social action possible
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pedagogy at its best is not about training in techniques and methods, nor does it involve coercion or political indoctrination. Indeed, far from a mere method or an a priori technique to be imposed on all students, education is a political and moral practice that provides the knowledge, skills and social relations that enable students to explore for themselves the possibilities of what it means to be engaged citizens, while expanding and deepening their participation in the promise of a substantive democracy
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