the pedagogy of the oppressed

[rioters bloc]

has anyone read this? and if so, whatd u think of it?

ill post my thoughts on it later, i gotta dash

[RedJacobin]

i read part of it a few years ago. i vaguely remember two things from it:

1) teaching has to start with the concrete problems of daily life. teachers should bring people together to express their problems and discuss solutions. the political consciousness of the people develops during this process. it's an approach that contrasts with the "textbook style", which would be memorizing and discussing ideology and theory with no direct connection to lived experience.

2) there's a two-way relation, or a dialogue, between teacher and student. the educator has to be educated themselves.

both are good insights for activism i think. it's kind of similar to mao's idea of the "mass line" -- "from the masses, to the masses." freire drew from mao if i'm remembering correctly...

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

This is one of the greatest books ever written IMO. I first read it a few years ago, and a few more times since.

Fats did a fairly well job of breaking down some of the more important features; ie. relating education to daily experience, students educating the teacher, actual learning instead of just memorization, etc.

In this form of education it's great to see how politicized people can become when they have the proper knowledge and are as much a part of the process as the teachers.

We've been working on creating a pedagogical institute in the Dominican Republic for a short while now, there's alot of work and finacial problems involved however.

[rioters bloc]

this is one of the few books i've read [non-fiction that is] which was engaging and also really resounded with some of my core political beliefs. i guess his 'methodology' is something which i've always wanted to see more of in the left but wasn't able to articulate it as well.

btw here's an online version for anyone interested in reading it :)

http://www.marxists.org/subject/education/...dagogy/ch01.htm (http://www.marxists.org/subject/education/freire/pedagogy/ch01.htm)

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Really? I'm sort of the other way. I haven't read a fiction book in years and years. The last was More's Utopia. I guess I just don't see the point in it.

[bayano]

a big influence on me, i had done some teaching and incorporated it into my work. and i have most of freire's other books, tho i try to keep a collection of pedagogy of the oppressed so i can give it out to educators and education students that i meet.