Tag Archives: critical pedagogy

Pedagogía de la autonomía: Enseñar no es transferir conocimiento

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

El sistema educativo actual está basado en la Revolución Industrial, donde los trabajadores tenían que especializarse en un trabajo mecánico, y para ello debían repetirlo una vez tras otra hasta memorizarlo. En estos últimos 50 años las esferas económica, cultural … Continue reading →

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Dialogue, Knowledge, and Teacher-Student Relations – Freirean Pedagogy in Theory and Practice

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read In this article, I draw on ethnographic ﬁeldwork among popular adult education non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Brazil to show how popular educators interpreted and acted based on Freirean pedagogical theory in ways that appeared to reduce its potential for … Continue reading →

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Popular Education Tool Kit

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Popular Education Tool Kit is a collection of activities, dinamics, games, workshop ideas, etc. submitted by participants in the Jefferson Center’s Popular Education Conference 2004. Contributors to this tool kit are using popular education in a variety of settings … Continue reading →

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A democracy we can eat: a livelihoods approach to TVET policy and provision

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Giorgio Bertini

Read In Southern Africa, theories of adult education have remained modelled on imported paradigms. The urgency of particularly the first of the Millennium Development Goals, ‘to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger’ generally translates into policy and provision of skills training … Continue reading →

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Lessons to be Learned from Paulo Freire as Education is being Taken Over by the Mega Rich

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Giorgio Bertini

Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich Read also : Access, Retention, and Success in Higher Education Around the World Subprime Opportunity: The Unfulfilled Promise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Giorgio Bertini

Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy Paulo Freire is one of the most important critical educators of the 20th century. Not only is he considered one of the founders of critical … Continue reading →

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Liberating Praxis – Paulo Freire’s Legacy for Radical Education and Politics

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Giorgio Bertini

Read A brilliant and comprehensive analysis of Freire’s work, as can be found in this book, certainly ﬁtted a series that attempted to address and demonstrate how scholars, working in the ﬁelds of cultural studies and critical pedagogy, might join … Continue reading →