A Critical Feminist Reading of Freire: Reimagining Teachers' Identities and Practices in a Post-Truth Era

• In Event: Freire-Inspired Activism and Educational Research

Abstract

What new thinking and discursive spaces are urgently needed to assure an education system and democracy that can rapidly respond to threats in an era of post-truth and increasing injustices? This paper uses a critical feminist reading of Freire to scrutinise the framing (representation) of teachers’ identities and work practices in ways that foreground justice - social, gender, racial and planetary justice - within a globalising model of networked governance. The paper draws from a select literature review to argue that Freirean philosophy provides a theory and a method for critical policy researchers to critique global network policy and to revision an activist imaginary as a point of departure to the contemporary social engineering model found in evidence-based policy making.

Author

• Geraldine Mooney Simmie, University of Limerick
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