Marie Lamboray's Blog – October 2010 Archive (2)

Freedom

Freire wanted education to be 'liberating'. He was opposed to passive transmission of information and condoned oppression. For him, education is 'the practice of freedom'.

The excerpt below of the book Pratiques émancipatrices. Actualités de Paolo Freire is a reflexion on the meaning of the word 'freedom'.

For an education to be truly liberating, we must ask ourselves: what does "freedom" mean?…

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Added by Marie Lamboray on October 7, 2010 at 1:41pm — 2 Comments

Networks explicitly inspired by Paolo Freire are concerned with the meaning of words, as similar words may be used very differently and have diverse meanings. The Constellation shares that concern.

For instance, when Marijo and her team constructed our website in Spanish, she did not translate the English website, but rethought our whole content in their own language.

To facilitate our collective learning on the… Continue

Added by Marie Lamboray on October 4, 2010 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

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