Project 3c

Jessica explained that Freire was optimistic in spite of many challenges that he faced. She also explained that Freire tried to set free many of the poorest of the poor. This relates to their lack of literacy and the amount of ability they even have to relate with the world, and particularly their world in their country which demanded literacy as a prerequisite to vote. This culture of silence is how many people in other lands that cannot cause change live because of their lack in ability to do so.

Robyn explained how Paulo Freire was taught from an early age to respect the importance of dialog. This type of dialogue is not one way. This relates to a classroom not being a place where teachers just teach, it is more of a place for a flow of ideas. Dialogue is double sided and requires both sides particpate in a kind of the similar way that people should interact with the world.

Freire's ideas are very similar to the concepts of this class. in just the way you as the teacher communicate with us by writing comments and then we respond to them and those of others is an example of the dialogue Freire was referring to. not the type of diagloue is a traditional classroom setting where the teachers just teaches but a two-way street involving interpretation on the students behalf and back to the teacher and then back to the students.