Paulo Freire's Politics of Education and a New Hope

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🗓️ 17 January 2022

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 63 Critical Education Theory Series, Part 3 How did Wokeness come about? Here on the New Discourses Podcast, we've dedicated hours and hours to uncovering the roles of neo-Marxism (or, Critical Marxism; or, Critical Theory), postmodern Theory, Marxism, Hegelianism, and other dimensions of Leftist thought. The role played by Critical Pedagogy, and in particular the Marxian Theory of Paulo Freire, has not been fully discussed, however. The role played by this line of Marxian thought cannot be ignored, however, because, as James Lindsay puts it in the forthcoming book Race Marxism (https://amzn.to/3qo23Bw), Critical Pedagogy is the plow, planter, and fertilizer that enabled Wokeness to grow in the first place. This is evident when we understand Freire's line of thought on the purpose and approach to education, but what's less well understood is the aspect of faith and hope ("Critical Hope") Freire brought back into Marxian Theory. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James as he dives into the introduction to Paulo Freire's 1985 book, The Politics of Education (https://amzn.to/3ntSjnr), in order to better understand Freire and his influence. This podcast is the third in the developing Critical Education Theory series on the New Discourses Podcast and the first of many focusing on the figure and thought of Paulo Freire. 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 Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	And hello, everyone. This is James Lindsay. You are listening to the new
0:23.6	discourses podcast and you are in the middle of my probably extraordinarily long as I'm finding out
0:32.2	and evolving series on critical education theory, a critical pedagogy if you need a name for this
0:38.8	monster. This, of course, is a series somewhat distinct from my groomer schools series, which I
0:45.3	encourage you to check out. They are linked together in concept. In a sense, the groomer school series
0:52.0	is kind of telling you the end of the trajectory that I'm following in the critical education
0:58.0	theory series. I didn't do that on purpose. I just got pissed off about the groomers in the
1:03.3	schools. So if you listen to those three episodes and I'm getting extraordinarily strong positive
1:09.5	feedback about those three, the groomer school series on the new discourses podcast, you can hear
1:14.0	about the Marxist attempt to use sexual education in the first episode to achieve Marxist agendas
1:20.6	in society. You can hear actual queer theory and what its purpose is and why they want it in
1:26.8	early childhood education and elementary schools in the second episode. And in the third episode,
1:32.7	you can hear how these things come together in particular with critical race theory to create
1:37.3	a replication of Mao's education program that he used to create the red guard in China in the
1:43.5	1960s and 1970s, which was a nightmare that led to the deaths of millions of people.
1:48.8	This series, however, the critical education theory series or critical pedagogy series
1:56.1	is a bigger project. And so I'll remind the listener and we're in the third episode of this now
2:03.9	that what we're actually tracking through is as kind of like the guidepost. I'm actually taking
2:10.1	this book very seriously. There's this book by an education theorist at the February call
2:15.6	correctly Iowa State University by the name of Isaac Gottsman. That's G-O-T-T-E-S-M-A-N.
2:23.5	The book is called The Critical Turn in Education. And it chronicles the history of the critical
2:32.1	the creeping in or the incorporation of or the the colonization by critical theory throughout
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