The Social Work of Education

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 73 Critical Education Theory Series, Part 9 This episode of the New Discourses Podcast continues into a third 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 parts, James Lindsay presented the ideas of the first four chapters, revealing both how religious Freire is and how Marxist. Part 1, covering the first two chapters of the book can be found here: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/paulo-freires-politics-of-education/, and Part 2, covering the following two chapters can be found here: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/paulo-freire-educating-to-proclaim-the-world/. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay reads the entirety of chapter 5 of The Politics of Education, which seems out of place at first because it addresses "the role of the social worker in the process of change." Not only is this chapter also profoundly religious, it reveals two points very clearly that are crucial to understand if one is to understand Critical Pedagogy (thus what's happening in schools). First, Freire is reproducing basic Marxist Theory with knowledge (as understood by formal education within the existing system) as the special form of bourgeois property. Second, Freire is erasing the distinction between education, which he says must be sociopolitical to be authentic, and social work, paving the way for the Social-Emotional Learning (https://newdiscourses.com/2022/03/critical-education-transformative-social-emotional-learning-sel/) programs of today, especially Transformative SEL. Join James to dig even deeper into what it means that our children all 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	Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of the Critical Education Theory series on
0:26.5	the New Discourses Podcasts that I've been slowly trying to work through. It's going to be big and
0:33.5	long and complicated because I'm so bogged down right now in Paulo Freire and what Paulo Freire
0:38.7	is opening up for me and making sure we understand what's happened in education is so important
0:43.6	that we are going to linger and go through his books and tremendous detail or some of his books
0:48.1	anyway and so if you recall we're working our way through the last two episodes of this podcast
0:53.9	went through chapters one and two and then chapters three and four of the book The Politics of
0:59.9	Education and this was his breakout book in the United States published in 1985 pushed by the
1:09.2	activist educator Henry Drew who is in a sense Paulo Freire if you think of Paulo Freire as a
1:15.6	profit Henry Drew is his evangelist and so he pushed Freire into the American and North American
1:23.3	education scene very significantly and so we're working our way through it actually the last
1:29.0	four episodes of this series is that are specifically about this book I've tried to go through
1:36.3	this we spent two episodes going through the introduction and episode on chapters one and two
1:40.5	and episode on chapter three and four now we're going to actually just read chapter five and go
1:44.7	through because it's a weird little different one chapter six I'll go through next and it looks like
1:49.3	I'm going to have to break chapter six itself into two separate episodes and this will probably be
1:53.9	the case for seven eight and nine as well and then after that the book's actually in my opinion not
1:57.8	that interesting though I'll read through it again and make sure I'm not missing anything to tidy up
2:02.3	then we can switch over to Paulo Freire's other book the famous one the pedagogy the oppressed
2:08.5	but this book is very revelatory it's very explanatory and it really helpful to understand and like
2:15.8	I'm trying to convince people now our entire educational model is Fraarian it is Paulo Freire's
2:21.8	model translated into identity Marxism and so the culturally responsive pedagogy for example of
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