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The critical power of Freire's work
| Resumo: | In the second missive, ‘The critical power of Freire’s work’, Licínio Lima, the well-known Portuguese Freirean, addresses teacher educators and reflects on why Freire’s legacy remains current, namely that education is not ‘valueneutral’. Licínio argues with passion that we need a critique of ‘traditional, bureaucratic, dehumanised education that reproduces social inequalities’. The author reminds us that Freire’s work is also more than this. It is about alternatives ‘… and a world of possibilities for transformation’. This is a plea to see Freire’s work as full of doubts and questions, encouraging debate and a critical understanding of education. Licínio concludes with a reminder of the violence and oppression Freire would have fought against in the new environment of, ‘… physical and symbolic violence, restrictions on freedom and democracy, environmental disaster … access to vaccines and oxygen by the current ‘ragged from the world’…’ |
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| Autores principais: | Lima, Licínio C. |
| Assunto: | Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Educação Educação de qualidade |
| Ano: | 2021 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | outro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | In the second missive, ‘The critical power of Freire’s work’, Licínio Lima, the well-known Portuguese Freirean, addresses teacher educators and reflects on why Freire’s legacy remains current, namely that education is not ‘valueneutral’. Licínio argues with passion that we need a critique of ‘traditional, bureaucratic, dehumanised education that reproduces social inequalities’. The author reminds us that Freire’s work is also more than this. It is about alternatives ‘… and a world of possibilities for transformation’. This is a plea to see Freire’s work as full of doubts and questions, encouraging debate and a critical understanding of education. Licínio concludes with a reminder of the violence and oppression Freire would have fought against in the new environment of, ‘… physical and symbolic violence, restrictions on freedom and democracy, environmental disaster … access to vaccines and oxygen by the current ‘ragged from the world’…’ |
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