Paulo Freire's Prophetic Vision for Education

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 65 Critical Education Theory Series, Part 4 Perhaps no Marxist has had more influence on the Western world than the Brazilian crackpot educator Paulo Freire, who is most famous for his book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (https://amzn.to/3IRRe0N), which is the third most-cited work in the social sciences and humanities in the history of the world and a mainstay in all education programs today. Understanding Freire and his influence is therefore paramount to understanding how our education system has been poisoned by Marxist Theory over the last forty years. To put it simply, Freire must be understood as a significant prophet in the Marxist religion, and his faith has been integrated thoroughly into all North American education, to the detriment of all. Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, where he continues through the darker, deeper aspect of Freirean Critical Pedagogy, as he reads through the second half of Henry Giroux's foreword to Freire's 1985 The Politics of Education (https://amzn.to/3s4bQft), which is an explicitly religious book. This is the fourth episode in Lindsay's sprawling Critical Education Theory (Critical Pedagogy) series on the New Discourses Podcast. 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	Hello, and hi there. This is James Lindsay. You are listening to the new
0:23.4	Discoursees podcast. We are eyeballs deep in our initial for a initial investigation into critical
0:34.7	education theory, more formerly known as critical pedagogy, had to take a slight detour through how
0:43.8	Marxism is actually a theology in order to get to this point. If you recall the last we left off in
0:50.6	this series, which was the third and out of infinity, probably, in the critical pedagogy series that
0:56.7	I'm doing here on the podcast. We were reading, if you recall the structure, we were reading through
1:02.4	Isaac Gotsman's Critical Turn in Education, which I encourage every one of you to pick up and read,
1:06.9	because it's apparently going to take us 300 years to get through it. Just read it for yourself.
1:11.0	And what I said that we're going to do is go piece by piece through Gotsman and not going to read
1:15.4	the whole book, but I'm going to go through the different sources that he encounters or that he
1:20.9	brings up. And I'm going to explain to you, we're not just going to read about the critical turn in
1:26.4	pedagogy, and I'm just going to tell you that we're going to do exactly what Gotsman tells us to do in
1:30.1	his book, which is to read the primary sources alongside his secondary source. And so we then took a
1:39.0	detour from chapter one in Gotsman's book into this other book by Paulo Freire, who is the
1:49.8	godfather, the intellectual godfather of critical pedagogy. He's not the father of critical pedagogy or
1:54.9	critical education theory. That's Henry Giroux, Canadian American Marxist educator, who had
2:02.6	tremendous influence, who also is the person who brought Paulo Freire's influence into the
2:08.6	United States, in particular, at least on the US side of things. And in the first paragraph,
2:15.1	which is how far we've got it through Gotsman's book. In the first paragraph, we run into a discussion,
2:21.8	in fact, a book review of Paulo Freire's 1985 book titled The Politics of Education. And so
2:30.6	the goal, of course, of that chapter is to frame out Freire as the intellectual godfather, but not
2:35.1	the intellectual father of critical pedagogy. And what we end up with is that we see that the bulk of
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