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This course is an exploration of the theoretically-grounded approach to education known as \"critical pedagogy\", and the work and ideas of Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator who is most closely associated with this approach. Throughout the semester, we will collectively make sense of Freire's important theoretical contributions to critical pedagogy (e.g., banking education, conscientização, praxis, false and true generosity, dialogics, radical love, etc.) as well as some of the pedagogical practices that he used in the Brazilian literacy campaign in the 1960s (generative themes, culture circles, problem-posing, etc.). We will consider the historical and political context that inspired Freire's work and how that work evolved and developed over time. This context includes Freire's childhood in poverty, his interest in revolutionary social movements, and the practice of liberation theology in Latin America. We will also discuss the ways in which Freire's ideas have been implemented \"on the ground\" in post-revolution, post-colonial literacy campaigns in Brazil, El Salvador, Guinea Bissau, and Nicaragua.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate