Paulo Freire's Perpetual Cultural Revolution

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 83 Critical Education Theory Series, Part 15 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 here (https://newdiscourses.com/tag/critical-education-theory/). In the previous two parts, James Lindsay presented the ideas in the sixth chapter of that book, wherein we see how Freire Marxified education itself (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/05/paulo-freires-marxification-of-education/) and explained the groomer "dialogical" model (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/05/paulo-freire-birth-of-groomer-schools/). 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/), here (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/social-work-education/), and here (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/05/paulo-freire-birth-of-groomer-schools/). In this episode, James takes up the seventh chapter of The Politics of Education, wherein Freire outlines the need for and process of "conscientization." That is, in this chapter, Freire makes it clear that the neo-Marxist consciousness-raising process is what education is actually about. Join him to understand that for Freire, education is about becoming a Marxist and a radical explicitly in the mold of revolutionary guerrillas like Che Guevara. 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	Hey there and welcome back to the new discourses podcast, this is James Lindsay, we're talking
0:24.2	about Pollo Freire's book, The Politics of Education. This is part of our now sprawling series on this
0:33.2	book, which is inside of a sprawling series on critical education theory. So we're continuing
0:38.9	through this, but this is an important book just to remind you, or if this is your first time
0:42.7	tuning into this series, this is an important book because it is the book that brought Pollo Freire's
0:48.6	Marxified education model to the United States and Canada to North American education to
0:54.1	colleges of education. Pollo Freire's most famous book, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed was written
0:58.2	in 1970. This book came out in 1985. This was the book that got people in colleges of education
1:04.4	to pay attention to Freire, and therefore to get the pedagogy of the oppressed, etc., taken
1:10.0	seriously. I actually think this book is a lot more telling and a lot more clear, if you will,
1:16.6	not that Freire's particularly clear about what's going on with his ideas of education.
1:22.3	So we're spending a lot of time going through it. If you've been following the series, you know,
1:26.9	I don't even know how many podcasts we are deep on this guy now, on this book now, not even just this
1:31.5	guy. Certainly we have gone through the first two chapters that was two podcasts. That was a
1:38.1	podcast. We went through the introduction as two podcasts. We did the third and fourth chapters
1:42.8	of podcasts, fifth chapters of podcasts, two chapters and two podcasts on a sixth chapter.
1:47.4	And now we're going to talk about chapter seven. And this is where the book gets a little weird.
1:53.0	For the listeners, let me just give you a quick little apology for this episode. If I send a little
1:58.6	gravely or a little scratchy, it's because I have interminable laryngitis. I got laryngitis. I
2:04.5	can't get rid of laryngitis. I'm trying to get rid of laryngitis. So if I send a little scratchy
2:08.9	or gravely, that's what it is. But I figured I'm getting behind. I have other things to do.
2:14.1	I've mapped this podcast out a couple of weeks ago and I want to get on with other things. So I'm
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