Freire in Focus: Exploring Power and Pedagogy Through Language, Methodologies, Identity, and Sustainability

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session explores a broad view of topics through a Freirean lens - with authorship arriving from many varying approaches, authors have drawn on diversified cultural and contextual perspectives and educational experiences. Authors have written papers from the views of LGBTQ+ empowerment, contextualizing methodologies for place-based knowledge transformation, the power of looking critically at language and discourse in textbooks, and ecopedagogical intersections between Freire and foodways. This session will be especially useful for discussing student agency and pedagogical approaches in a way that challenges dominant hegemonic discourses in transformational praxis-driven nature.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire

Chair

• Greg William Misiaszek, Beijing Normal University

Papers

• Looking Within, Looking Near: Interrogating Freire and Learning for Place - Brian Zamora, University of California - Los Angeles

• The Inclusive Classroom: A Path to Praxis for LGBTQ+ Educators and Students - Darek Ciszek, University of California - Los Angeles

• Reading Bourdieu and Freire in Authoritarian Contexts: Implications for Teachers’ and Students’ Empowerment - Fadhila Hadjeris, University of California - Los Angeles

• Ecopedagogy and Hegemonic Discourses: Transforming Dominant Systems of Education, Agriculture, and Foodways - Michaela Ensweiler, University of California - Los Angeles

Discussant

• Carlos Alberto Torres, University of California - Los Angeles