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Didactics and politics in Paulo Freire’s philosophy of education: On the abandonment of the concept of conscientization

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Stańczyk P.

Przegląd Pedagogiczny

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2019

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issue 1

37-46

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The aim of this article is to present Freire’s experience in Africa as a process that transformed his teaching and learning method as well as his philosophy of education. His participation in the São Toméan literacy campaign resulted in the abandonment of the category of conscientization that was central to his philosophy. Freire’s decision was dictated by the fact that the category’s interpretations were threatened by teachers who felt superior to learners. During the São Toméan literacy campaign, Freire came to believe that a necessary condition for the social symmetry in education (and in society in general) was to concentrate on community’s practical problems, whose solution is a difficult task both for teachers and students. Thing-centered pedagogy (Hodgson et al., 2017; Biesta, 2010; Latour, 2007) – which seems to be a new paradigm in educational theory – can be derived from Freire’s philosophy of education.

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Krótka historia terminu conscientização i o tym, jak Paulo Freire je porzucił

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Stańczyk P.

Teraźniejszość – Człowiek – Edukacja

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2018

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vol. 21

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issue 1(81)

7-23

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This article is focusing on the crucial, for emancipatory pedagogy of P. Freire, category of conscientização. On the one hand this notion was the core part of Freirean philosophy of education, on the other, there was some important reasons of abandoning this category by P. Freire. In P. Freire’s opinion conscientização was overused or used in naive or even reactionary way. To reconstruct P. Freire’s reasons to abandon conscientização category this article contains analysis of two Freire’s text which delimit boundary between use and abandonment of this notion. The context of this article are hegemony of neoliberal discourse in education, knowledge-based society and economy and also appreciation of popular classes in educational emancipatory process.

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Artykuł ten koncentruje się na kluczowej dla emancypacyjnej pedagogii P. Freirego kategorii conscientização. Z jednej strony pojęcie to należało do rdzenia Freirowskiej filozofii wychowania, z drugiej zaś zaistniały ważne powody, dla których P. Freire zrezygnował z jego użycia. Zdaniem P. Freirego pojęcie conscientização było nadużywane lub używane w sposób naiwny bądź wręcz reakcyjny. W celu zrekonstruowania powodów rezygnacji P. Freirego z pojęcia conscientização artykuł ten zawiera analizę dwóch jego tekstów wyznaczających granicę użycia omawianego pojęcia. Kontekstem tego artykułu jest neoliberalna hegemonia w dyskursie edukacyjnym, społeczeństwo i gospodarka oparte na wiedzy, a także uznanie warstw ludowych w edukacyjnym procesie emancypacyjnym.

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Transformative Adult Learning in New Social Movement – a Case Study from South Africa

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Čubajevaitė M.

International Journal of Area Studies

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2015

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vol. 10

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issue 2

139-171

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New social movements in South Africa could play a prominent role in mobilizing the communities to reflect critically and address the repercussions of the neo-liberal agenda which manifests itself in perpetual exclusion of under-educated adults and provision of poor quality education. Few studies especially from the perspective of the activists leave a potential research area of a very interesting phenomenon of how people learn while struggling for social justice. Therefore this article based on a single multi-site case study on a social movement cohering around literacy issues in Gauteng, South Africa, aims at answering, what forms of learning and education the social movement encompassed, how did the group conscientization occur and what are the individual transformations. Semi-structured interviews and a focus group discussion were held with 13 learnersactivists and 2 adult educators. By applying Mezirow’s individual transformation and Freirean group conscientization models the analysis of primary and secondary data, revealed that the engagement in the social movement challenged and changed learnersactivists’ understanding of educational status within their respective communities. This in turn led to transformative action addressing the problems identified. On the individual level, some learners-activists became more tolerant and willing to cooperate with those of different political ideologies, able to tap into community resources. Finally, the potential of social movements as adult learning environments are outlined.

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Didactics and politics in Paulo Freire’s philosophy of education: On the abandonment of the concept of conscientization

Krótka historia terminu conscientização i o tym, jak Paulo Freire je porzucił

Transformative Adult Learning in New Social Movement – a Case Study from South Africa