[lit-ideas] Re: Locating Friere's foot
- From: "veronica caley" <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:07:49 -0400
"wondering what happened to the heat"
It came to Michigan. It was 94 yesterday, only two degrees from record.
Today it will be 90. It is predicted to be in the mid-80's until next
weekend. At that time it is expected to be in the 90's again.
Veronica
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From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 2:38 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Locating Friere's foot
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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