Freire and Education

• In Event: 36.049 - Freire and Education: Revolutionary Praxis of Love, Dignity, and Class Struggle

Abstract

Professor Antonia Darder, distinguished international Freirean scholar, is an artist, poet, activist, and public intellectual, and the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair at Loyola Marymount University. Darder reflects on how Freire’s work has illuminated her own life practices and thinking as an educator and activist. She takes a heartfelt look at the ways Freire, in the current moment, can still inspire a critically intellectual and socially democratic life to open up his theories in entirely new ways, both to those already familiar with his work and those coming to him for the first time. She illustrates how Freire’s practice exemplifies the courageous spirit of determination that must permeate our conscious efforts to transform the current state of politics and education practices.

Authors

• Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University

• Tricia M. Kress, Molloy College

• Miguel Zavala, Chapman University

• Sheila L. Macrine, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth