Paulo Freire: Educating to Proclaim the World

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🗓️ 18 April 2022

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 72 Critical Education Theory Series, Part 8 This episode of the New Discourses Podcast continues into a second part 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 here (https://newdiscourses.com/tag/critical-education-theory/). In the previous part, James Lindsay presented the ideas of the first two chapters, revealing both how religious Freire is and how Marxist. Part 1, covering the first two chapters of the book can be found here (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/paulo-freires-politics-of-education/). In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James tackles the next two chapters of this book, chapters three and four, wherein it becomes abundantly clear that "Culturally Relevant Teaching" (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/02/critical-education-what-is-culturally-relevant-pedagogy/) is an Identity Marxist repackaging of Freirean education. His discussion highlights how messianic Freire is and pointing out that, in some sense, Freire's Critical Pedagogy stands in analogous relationship to the Gospel of John for the Marxist Theology (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/01/theology-marxism/). Freire's idea is that literacy means political literacy as understood in the Marxist way: formal education is bourgeois and Critical Education is a revolutionary praxis that can transform the oppressive state of the world. Freire's point, though, is positively religious, in the Johnnine sense in that his goal is to teach the word so the conscious can learn to speak the world. Join James Lindsay to unpack even more of what it means that all of our children now go to Paulo Freire's Marxist Sunday Schools. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: https://newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses https://newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	and hey there everybody this is James Lindsay welcome back to the new discourses podcast where we're
0:25.6	going through a long-running series on the critical education theory the so-called critical pedagogy.
0:35.3	We are in a mini series within that this kind of nested series within series within series
0:41.5	where we're reading through the Brazilian Marxist educators works the Paulo Freire is his name
0:48.9	of Freire Eure to get it pronounced I think closer to correct we're going through his book right
0:55.5	now the politics of education and just kind of re-contextualize this this is a kind of depending on
1:02.4	how you want to count them second or fourth episode of the podcast specifically about the politics of
1:06.3	education I did two podcasts where I read through the introduction which was written by Henry
1:12.0	Giroux and I now would say that if you take Paulo Freire is being a significant profit of the
1:19.2	Marxist religion that Freire represents something you know like somebody who's coming and proclaiming
1:25.7	the faith that Henry Giroux who wrote the forward to this book or introduction to this book
1:32.1	is like his evangelist who brought him mostly in particular to the North American education context
1:38.2	though that's a slightly more complicated story that you can hear in the previous episode
1:41.7	where I went through and tremendous detail what's going on with Freire's approach to education
1:48.6	in chapters one and two of this book so in this episode I am going to endeavor to summarize
1:55.6	chapters three and four and we'll probably just read most are all of chapter five I think this
2:01.8	is a good way to break up the book I really need people I'm putting this much attention and this
2:06.0	much detail on going through Freire's work this is the politics of education from 1985 this is
2:11.9	the seminal work that brought critical education and particularly Paulo Freire's educational
2:20.6	pedagogy to North America I'm going through this in so much detail because it's so
2:27.0	absolutely important to understand that Freire is really the cornerstone the foundation upon which
2:34.0	all of this Marxist education that we're dealing with today is based and so if you listen
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