Full Description
On the occasion of the centennial of Paulo Freire's birth in September 2021 and of fifty years since the initial publication of his seminal work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, this book focuses on how scholars continue to reinvent his work across geographic and thematic contexts. Reinvention is specifically used because Freire vehemently opposed simply repeating his work, calling on scholars to instead meaningfully recontextualize it. The book illustrates how without critical, contextual reinvention, teaching cannot lead to praxis - students' critical reflexivity about how to make a better world and sustainable planet.
The chapter authors' explorations of past, present, and future-looking praxis, including their own, offer foundations, histories, possibilities, challenges, and examples of reinventing Freire's work. It is work that counters fatalistic teaching that reproduces and justifies oppressions. In Pedagogy of Indignation, Freire stated that students should be educated to "dream of constant reinvention of the world, the dream of liberation, thus the dream of a less ugly society, one less mean-only dream of human beings' silent adaptation to a reality considered untouchable." Readers will have the opportunity to understand how reinventions of Freire's work continue to commit to these crucial goals.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.
Contents
Introduction (1 of 2)—Reinventing: Essence and usefulness of Freire's work for the past and next 100 years Introduction (2 of 2)—After the party: In the luminous residuals, finding ourselves anew Response to Greg's Introduction— Flash nonfiction: Light/questioning Response to Lauren's Introduction: Reinventions as brightly glowing illuminations 1. Paulo Freire: Voices and silences 2. Power to the people: Education for social change in the philosophies of Paulo Freire and Mozi 3. We made the road for walking and now we must run: Paulo Freire, the Black Radical Tradition, and the inroads to make beyond racial capitalism 4. Is refugee education indeed educational? The Freirean perspective to refugee education beyond humanitarian, rights, or development rationale 5. Freire 2.0: Pedagogy of the digitally oppressed 6. Reinventing Paulo Freire's pedagogy in Finnish non-formal education: The case of Life Skills for All model 7. Reconsidering architectural education based on Freire's ideas in Iraqi Kurdistan 8. A contribution to Paulo Freire's theory and practice: The 'Cultural Extension Service/University of Recife' (1962-64) 9. Understanding colonialism and fostering a decolonizing emancipatory education through Paulo Freire 10. Freireian and Ubuntu philosophies of education: Ontoepistemological characteristics and pedagogical intersections 11. An ecopedagogical, ecolinguistical reading of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): What we have learned from Paulo Freire 12. Salutations: An epilogue in letters
