RP:
'Language comes back from the holidays and finds the house in a horrible mess: Wittgenstein, family resemblances, definitions, and knowledge.'
: ) What a great title! So whatever happened to young Mr, Heilmayr? Did he kill himself or turn to poetry? (same thing really).
Mike Geary Memphis----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 1:38 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Locating Friere's foot
William Dolphin wroteI 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.' byStephan Robert Heilmayr. Robert Paul, wondering what happened to the heat ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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