Paulo Freire's Marxification of Education

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🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 138 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 75 Critical Education Theory Series, Part 11 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 fifth chapter, wherein the seeds of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) are laid as Freire describes how education and social work are closely related. The previous parts of this series, covering the earlier chapters of the book can be found here (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/paulo-freires-politics-of-education/), here (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/paulo-freire-educating-to-proclaim-the-world/), and here (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/social-work-education/). In this episode, James dives into the first half of the sixth chapter, which goes deeply into Freire's model for education. In fact, what we see in this episode makes sense of the ones before it while setting the stage for all the ones that follow. Paulo Freire Marxified education itself. That is, Freire redefined literacy, education, and even knowledge according to the usual bourgeois/proletarian dichotomy and thus was able to redefine literacy to mean gaining critical consciousness. Join James to hear about the Marxification of education itself, bearing in mind yet again that almost all of our kids now go to Paulo Freire's 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	All right, hey, everybody, this is James Lindsay.
0:22.0	You are listening to the new Discourses podcast.
0:24.2	We are still ripping our way through Paulo Freire's critical education theory.
0:30.3	In particular, we're in the middle of a series inside of a series.
0:33.6	I don't know, maybe it's a series inside of a series inside of a series.
0:36.4	I don't know.
0:37.2	Engaging his book, The Politics of Education from 1985, we're doing a very deep
0:44.9	dive through this book.
0:46.1	As a matter of fact, we're crawling through this book.
0:49.2	I did two podcasts in the broader critical education theory series about the
0:53.5	introduction to this book, took a diversion into the religion of Marxism, which is
0:58.1	very important to understand Marxism as a theology, communism as the religion, and to
1:03.5	understand it as such is kind of required to understand Freire's.
1:06.9	So we took a diversion into the theology of Marxism.
1:10.2	Now we've pulled back.
1:11.4	I did an episode in this series that dealt with chapters one and two, then another, there's
1:22.0	three and four, and then another that was chapter five, and then we're going to go into
1:26.0	chapter six now.
1:27.9	And I think I'm going to break, even though it's not particularly long, I think I'm going
1:32.3	to break chapter six into two podcasts, and we'll see how we do when we get to seven,
1:36.6	eight, and nine, which are also very important chapters to understanding what's going on
1:40.8	with Freire.
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