[lit-ideas] Re: Locating Friere's foot
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:38:27 -0700
William Dolphin wrote
I realize Eric's comment about Friere is a throwaway gibe, but since it
touches on one of the few areas I am marginally qualified to engage, I
will quickly note that the article linked grossly mischaracterizes what
I understand to be the core concepts of Friere's pedagogy.
In 1984, I supervised a thesis on some aspects of Freire's pedagogy.
I was not then especially conversant with Freire, and I agreed to
supervise the thesis only if the student (who was conversant with it)
would guide me by selecting the readings, explaining their relative
importance and their interrelationships. It was a good thesis. While we
read and discussed Freire together I found nothing in his thought and
writings that resembled the (scary) caricature of him that has been
presented to us.
The thesis was 'Literacy and freedom: a study of Paulo Freire's
pedagogy,' by Alejandro S. Plessl.
While looking it up in the Reed library's catalogue last night, I
discovered that in 1982, I'd supervised a thesis with this engaging title:
'Language comes back from the holidays and finds the house in a horrible
mess: Wittgenstein, family resemblances, definitions, and knowledge.' by
Stephan Robert Heilmayr.
Robert Paul,
wondering what happened to the heat
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