Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (Critical Perspectives Series)

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  read this book for one of my governmental graduate classes. I like what Freire says: "What I have sought always is to live the tension, the contradiction, between authority and freedom so as to maintain respect for both." I try (tried) to establish this in my classroom. It is not an easy balance to keep in a classroom filled with adolescents, but one well worth fighting for. What I did find, however, is that the children (7th graders) prefered loving authority over complete fre... (show more)

  read this book for one of my governmental graduate classes. I like what Freire says: "What I have sought always is to live the tension, the contradiction, between authority and freedom so as to maintain respect for both." I try (tried) to establish this in my classroom. It is not an easy balance to keep in a classroom filled with adolescents, but one well worth fighting for. What I did find, however, is that the children (7th graders) prefered loving authority over complete freedom. (show less)

   

   

  by Facebook-användare on Sep 05, 2008 at 06:49AM

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  Freire has a way of viewing education that is so simple, it makes you wonder how modern educators miss the purpose of education, if it is truly to liberate the mind

   

   

  by Eric Stauffer on Feb 17, 2009 at 04:57PM

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