Freire's Pedagogy Of The Oppressed And The Philosophy Of Education
Freire (2000) emphasizes the importance of love, charity, reflection (critical thinking), humility and dialogue -- which effects the "indivisible solidarity" -- important for the oppressed to become the liberators of themselves (p. 90). If I were to apply Freire's ideas about philosophy of education, including his ideas about "dialogue," "critical thinking," and the "indivisible solidarity," my classroom would look radically different from what the typical classroom of today looks like. In fact -- there would be no classroom at all. The world would become my classroom, and just as Socrates taught in the marketplace and made the world his classroom, so too would I return to this ancient practice of one of the greatest partakers of dialogue in human history and take myself and my students into the world where we could engage with reality and take serious critical thinking to the next level and apply ourselves to real-world concepts and real-world people, all while maintaining our efforts to achieve that transcendental aim of Freire's philosophy of education, which is true enlightenment/liberation.
This may not seem like a practical application of Freire's philosophy -- but it is really the most faithful application of Freire's philosophy. Freire (2000) asserts that "if I do not love the world -- if I do not love life -- if I do not love people -- I cannot enter into dialogue ... [and that] dialogue cannot exist without humility" (p. 90). To love the world, life, and the people in it, and to enter into dialogue with those people in order to better understand them and ourselves, it is essential to come into contact with them. And one cannot really come into contact with the world by building four walls and sitting inside them, which is what being in a classroom is all about. This raises the question: why have a classroom? Is it in and of itself...
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