![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He discussed his practice of literacy education in Brazil. His most famous work is the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. To Freire, education was a revolutionary act. Many good quotes, some quite resonant for our time: “Hopeless people make good fascists. Paulo Freire was a Brazilian educator with some pretty radical ideas about education and its role in creating better societies. Here the book starts to curve back on itself, returning to previous themes and topics, adumbrating and reflecting. It’s too long too reproduce here, and I don’t want to do an injustice by summarizing or excerpting it. There has been so much book club activity that it merited a post by itself. Each reflects on their experience of being outsiders as educators, then on their different personal stories and historical situations leading up to their becoming teachers. About ‘Al andar’ can be translated from Spanish as ‘by walking’ as in We make the road by walking, a book that records a conversation about education between Paulo Freire and Richard Horton, two prominent thinkers of education and social change. Horton and Freire discuss the political dimensions of their educational work, including the relationship between schools and politics. Here I’ll offer a summary of the reading, followed by links to readers’ activity online, some reflections, and discussion questions. In this post we can discuss chapters 5 (“Education and Social Change”) and 6 (“Reflections”). Welcome to our book club’s ongoing reading of We Make the Road by Walking. ![]()
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