Paulo Freire's Marxist Easter for Educators

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 90 Critical Education Theory Series, Part 20 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, James Lindsay presented the ideas in the ninth chapter of that book, where Freire outlines that the purpose of education is to humanize Man and the world, exactly as indicated by Karl Marx. 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/ Part 7: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/08/paulo-freire-and-the-critical-theft-of-education/ In this episode, the last in the formal educational series covering this book, James takes up the first part of the very weird tenth chapter of The Politics of Education, wherein Freire discusses Liberation Theology and the Role of the Church as a parallel educational institution. In this first part of this shocking chapter, before turning to the role he envisions for churches, Freire explains the religious conversion educators must go through in order to be "true" educators. He describes it as a process of spiritual death and rebirth, literally an Easter educators and religious leaders must go through to be resurrected on the side of the oppressed. This is the religious heart of the so-called "pedagogy of the oppressed" at the center of Freire's entire project and legacy. Join James to understand how Freire enabled the theft of education so that it could be transformed into religious education for the Theology of Marxism (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/01/theology-marxism/). 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 everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the new Discourses Podcasts.
0:23.6	As is James Lindsay, we are still slogging through what we're nearly done slogging through.
0:28.0	Paulo Freide's 1985 book The Politics of Education, which was this kind of work that
0:34.5	his evangelist, Henry Giroux, helped bring to light. It's a collection of essays that
0:40.3	Paulo had written between 1970-ish and 1985. It kind of lightly got edited into a book.
0:49.2	This book, the point was to actually bring Paulo Freide's work to the mainstream of educational
0:55.4	discourse in the North American, but especially United States context, in the middle of the 1980s.
1:02.8	Freide had actually dipped into the North American context. He had come to America for the first
1:08.4	time in 1967. He did some lectures. He met some with some people. He oversaw a kind of radical
1:17.8	attempt at education in New York City that was being run by a couple of Catholic priests that he got
1:23.9	hooked up with. And some of his work came to be known a little bit in 1967 and 1968.
1:32.7	And then in 1969, he actually took a brief lecturing appointment for a little over six months
1:39.9	at Harvard to present some of his ideas. And he wrote a few articles for the Harvard education
1:44.8	review while he was there. But the reception in the kind of educational domain of Freide's ideas
1:52.2	in the 70s, early 70s was virtually nonexistent, extremely low, extremely, extremely
1:58.0	tapered, that started to change in the late 1970s and early 1980s after Henry Gerrard discovered
2:05.1	his work and kind of revitalized it in the American context. And with the publication of this book
2:10.2	in 1985, he takes off. Now, I give you that kind of framing to remind you that this is an education
2:16.0	book. And in fact, it was a very influential education book. And this chapter is unabashedly religious.
2:22.3	Which is a strange thing to find in the middle of a book that's dedicated to remaking what turns
2:28.4	out to be remaking American education. Now, we we've already clearly identified that what Freide
2:33.3	is actually done is he's Marxified education. We don't have to go over that again. He's applied
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