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by SADDAI ESPINOSA GALINDEZ 4 years ago

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Critical Pedagogy

The concept of critical pedagogy emphasizes the importance of education in empowering individuals to understand and navigate the complexities of the world. It extends beyond traditional learning to foster critical thinking and awareness, enabling people to address multidimensional crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which encompasses political, economic, and personal dimensions.

Critical Pedagogy

Critical Pedagogy

Promote own interests and of the common good

Do we define ourselves as agents individualy or collectivelly?
“it is possible to free people from silence culture and the trap of ignorance only through education and awareness (Nayestani, 2009), quoted in Freire. 2014, p.2

The problems you have are not individual problems some of them might be social problems

Based on communication with society

How do you want to inform people they are living in a democracy? As mentioned by Giroux 2020 (Video)
Goverment has to take education seriously if they talk about democracy seriously

Politicizing education

Political Education

Media has a responsability to educate

Education for Emancipation/ Democracy

Education for Tirany

Relationships mean empowerment

How do we relate private issues to larger systemic concerns?
It requires exchange of thoughts and beliefs through dialogue in which both teachers and students have critical cooperation in research. 2014, p.2

People need to be able to understand the world and themselves

Not to live in a circle and say there's only one way

According to Freire, critical thinking is based on the objective realities in the individual’s life.

What I believe is not what you need to believe

Provide tools tools to understand the world

What it means to produce forms of understanding?
That is to enable people to navigate the world in which they live

Covid crisis is not just a medical crisis for example

But it is a muldimensional crisis; political, economical, personal