Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. “Language is never neutral.”
Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire’s education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.
Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.
Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”.
In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the “banking method” of education, wherein a teacher “deposits” knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or “bank”. Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.
“Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.”
Paulo Freire
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Mods are grooming “postawans” into future mods spots based on their fascistic Modichlorian blood-measurements.
1 month later and i still think it is so fucking wack that i let my insecurities and fear of uncertainty push me to blow up an amazing early romantic connect and now there’s a good chance this person i grew close with very rapidly can’t even be in my life as a friend. still think that is extremely fucking stupid. opinion on that course of action hasn’t budged an inch
Is there a place where I can download all of the emojis at once? Or atleast a quicker way then going one by one through the emoji picker?
Trump promising to remove tax on overtime payment when the republican strategy is to greatly increase the number of hours before you qualify for overtime pay is actually kind of a brilliant strategy. I hate that Republicans are very competently evil.
Cool, my city library has a copy to borrow.
My cargo shorts are the garb of an artist, disheveled and prophetic
Reading this title and instantly becoming a misanthrope: https://www.popsci.com/environment/small-hippo-extinction/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
Okay, so, I know that this video speaks to my extremely specific interests, but surely I can’t be the only one who’s watched Whiterun - A Skyrim Musical … and uh actually really thought it expressed my feelings about my job, my attempts to make a career in music, and my general dissatisfaction with hellworld?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_IONpQkuiY
Look, ok, it’s a Skyrim shitpost. But, I feel Sigurd’s pain. There must be someone as broken as me out there who cries at the second song, lol.
following up on finding a socialist-friendly therapist: reached out to someone who listed herself as having an anti-oppressive intersectional feminist approach. fingers crossed insurance and scheduling shit align.
just network bro
felt a wee flicker of communal bonding at my local bars karaoke night…mayhaps i should make this a semi-regular practice. the bummer thing is that going out for drinks is expensive as shiiiiiit
You can always tell the least technical person on a technical team because they’ll use the gramatically correct form of treating data as a plural noun. If you ever slip up and say “data are” it means the junior analyst in your group just accepted a new job.
It’d be funny to name a political party “the Serious Party” and then you could be like “I’m the only Serious candidate in this race!” Or during a debate you could be like “You can’t be Serious.”
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livesHave all hexbears touched a music recording, i.e., a CD, cassette or record? I realized that people who never have are going to be an increasing segment of the population and wondered if any of us are in it.
