: P.S. I?m not familiar with this Friere gentleman. Could you bring me up to speed on him? Thanks.
Paulo Freire was quite important as someone who defined, and worked for, an educational concept of liberation -- his first big piece of work, as I understand it, was in teaching Brazilian peasants to read so that they could read the contracts they were signing with their bosses, and thus so that they could stand up to their bosses. The page I cited above also comes with a useful glossary -- understanding Freire is an adventure not just in liberatory education but also in the history of the Brazilian Left, not to mention Freire's takes on Marx, Buber, and Sartre, so it's sometimes hard to figure what Freire is talking about, tho' he has his moments...
There's also the Liberatory Education Homepage tho' I haven't explored it...
There's also a movement that incorporates some of Freire's phenomenological insights within educational psychology in the US, it's called "constructivism," it makes no political claims, I'm still parsing my Altavista search of the Web sites in question...(hee hee hee)
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