Cog Tools Reflection- 9 (Freire)

I am not sure what kind of information is needed on my theorist so I will be sharing a series of posts about Paulo Friere that are by no means entirely comprehensive but serves more as an overview.

Paulo Friere (1921-1997) is known as an author, educator, and philosopher but also as a strong advocate for critical pedagogy (CP). He is credited with authoring one of the "foundational texts" on CP entitled Pedagogy of the Oppressed which was originally written in Portuguese and then translated into English is 1970. His first book was Education as the Practice of Freedom.

Banking Model of Education: the concept that the student is an empty account to be filled by the teacher

• comparable to John Locke's tabula rasa or blank slate principle
• Dewey was strongly critical of the transmission of mere facts as the goal of educations (as we all remember so fondly) 

It has been said the Freire updated this concept and ultimately laid the foundation for what became known as critical pedagogy by placing it is context with current theories and practices of education.

Critical Pedagogy (CP): a social movement and philosophy of education that combines education with critical theory, which stresses the reflective assessment and critique of society and culture by applying knowledge from the humanities and social sciences.

• going beneath the surface meaning to understand the deep meaning
• a continuous process of "unlearning", "learning", and "relearning", "reflection" "evaluation" and the impact these actions have on students particularly those that are believed to be historically and continually disenfranchised by "traditional schooling" 

"These varying moral perspectives of what is 'right' are to be found in what Dewey has referred to as the tensions between traditional and progressive eduction"

**Disclaimer: Dewey really is everywhere!!

My next post will highlight Freire's book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.