35.066 - Confronting Authoritarianism: The Necessity of Critical Pedagogy and Paulo Freire in a Post-Truth Era (Featuring Henry Giroux)

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium panel brings together leading critical scholars to address the educational dimensions of the rise of authoritarianism and it relationship to the crises of truth and agency. The discussions details the rise of authoritarian politics and its manifestations, the relationship between the educational trends of the past forty years and their complicity with the cultural and political shifts, and the possibilities of critical pedagogy and the Freirean legacy to foster democratic culture and just social change.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Emancipation

Chair

• Sheila L. Macrine, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

Papers

• Confronting Neoliberal Fascism - Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University

• The Alienation of Fact: The Positivist Legacy, Post-Truth, and Education - Kenneth J. Saltman, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

• Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy in a Post-Truth Era - Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University

• Freire and Post-Truth - Donaldo Macedo, University of Massachusetts - Boston