Paulo Freire and the Critical Theft of Education

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🗓️ 9 August 2022

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 88 Critical Education Theory Series, Part 19 This episode of the New Discourses Podcast continues a long miniseries exploring Paulo Freire’s landmark 1985 book The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation (https://amzn.to/3IJ4ZOT), and it is embedded in the broader Critical Education Theory series (https://newdiscourses.com/tag/critical-education-theory/). In the previous part (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/07/paulo-freire-and-learning-to-remake-man/), James Lindsay presented the ideas in the eighth chapter of that book, in which Freire describes "The Process of Political Literacy" and outlines a sweeping program for education as a means to remake Man himself. The previous parts of this series, covering the earlier chapters of the book can be found here: Part 1: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/paulo-freires-politics-of-education/ Part 2: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/paulo-freire-educating-to-proclaim-the-world/ Part 3: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/social-work-education/ Part 4: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/05/paulo-freire-birth-of-groomer-schools/ Part 5: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/07/paulo-freires-perpetual-cultural-revolution/ Part 6: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/07/paulo-freire-and-learning-to-remake-man/ In this episode, James takes up the ninth chapter of The Politics of Education, wherein Freire describes what he calls “Humanistic Education,” as that term is meant by Karl Marx Building on the themes of the previous two chapters (education for conscientization [https://newdiscourses.com/2022/07/paulo-freires-perpetual-cultural-revolution/] and education as a process of political literacy [https://newdiscourses.com/2022/07/paulo-freire-and-learning-to-remake-man/]), this chapter clarifies how Paulo Freire enabled the theft of education from all potential learners for the purposes of Marxism. It's an incredible crime against humanity. Join him to understand how Freire enabled the theft of education from our society and our children. Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support/ Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames Subscribe to New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to another episode of the New Discourses podcast in the middle
0:26.3	of this long, long, critical education theory series. I'm James Lindsay. We're in the middle
0:33.7	of this thing. We're still slogging our way through. I promise we're just three more. This
0:39.4	one and two more after this episodes, long episodes in which we're going to explore
0:45.6	Paulo for a day's book, The Politics of Education, which he published in 1985, which is comprised
0:51.9	of a bunch of essays that he wrote between 1970 and 1985 that was put together with a lot of
0:58.6	help by Henry Giroux, whom we'll eventually talk more about, update. I learned how to pronounce. I
1:06.6	bothered to learn how to pronounce Friday's name. It's Friday, not fray or year or fray or year or
1:12.1	whatever. It's Friday. It's Portuguese. I'm Brazilian, but the name is in Portuguese. So at any rate,
1:19.2	what we've done so far, we've worked through eight chapters of this book plus it's bizarre forward
1:26.9	by Henry Giroux. We have basically figured out what's going on with Paulo Friday's work. So kind
1:37.0	of the quick nut shell version of that is that Friday, Marxified Education, he created the idea of
1:43.4	being educated itself as a Marxist theory, as a form of property that certain people assign their
1:50.7	own access to to exclude other people. Those other people are the illiterate or the uneducated or,
1:57.7	in fact, people who are regarded as ignorant as not-knowers, whereas the educator people who
2:04.2	are able to regard themselves as people who know. And he creates a Marxist theory of knowledge
2:11.5	on the back of a Marxist theory of what it means to be educated. This isn't the same as the theory
2:17.1	of knowledge that the postmodernists put forth, but what we'll find eventually, if we get through
2:23.3	enough of this critical theory of education stuff, or critical turning education stuff, is that the
2:29.2	postmodernists were able to graft, should say the poststructural feminists actually, who were
2:34.9	feminists who took up postmodern theory, were able to graft postmodern theory into the Marxist
2:39.4	theory of knowledge created by Friday. And that's sort of how we ended up going woke.
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