What I learned this week:
Martha Chavez is a helath care professional and has a dog. I learned that Friere was born in 1921 and lived during the great depression. I also learned that he taught in secondary schools teaching Portuguese.
Stephanie is taking this class from Peru. Peru is about 4900 miles away from Santa Rosa Junior College. I learned that Friere is most famous for his philosophy as it applies to education and its transformation in accordance with praxis, the process through which reflection becomes action.
I also learned that he believed education was a form of liberation, in which a person can actually identfiy with the world not just throught abstract imagination.
About Me
- mattymcd11
- This is my last class @ the jc, just graduated with an AA and I am transfering out to either UCLA or UC San Diego but am not sure which one yet..
1 comment:
Superb work, Matthew. Imagine, folks, living in this country teaching English to high school students who could not read nor write? That is what Freire encountered in his teaching experiences. Imagine the lives of those individuals who could not cause change because they could not participate in the political process because they were not literate? Imagine the path of that life, especially for those who lived in favelas. Freire lived a hard life early on, he understood what it was to go hungry; he saw the ugly side of the depression. That understanding and connection was his passion; the knowledge he gained as a law student (of being able to cause change via the political system), the knowledge he gained via the depression, the knowledge he gained teaching Portuguese, the native language of Brazil -- all these experiences fed into his ideas and pedagogy of those who did not have literacy. Extremely important sociological ideas! Thank you for bringing this up, Matthew!
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