Codifications of Reality as Educational Tools for Critical Consciousness: Retheorizing Freire Through Praxis

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Paulo Freire’s discussion of ‘codifications’ in Pedagogy of the Oppressed has seldom been interrogated to illuminate the theoretical foundations of how ‘codifications’ are designed to re-present the reality of the oppressed, nor how they are best deployed to facilitate the formation of critical consciousness. This symposium examines the mediating role of ‘codifications’ in four different contexts in order to re-theorize Freire: autobiographical digital stories used as dialogical anchors in a school and community change project; body scars used to elicit experiences of oppression and resistance among GLBTQ street youth; photographs used to elicit the ideological framing of schools and teaching practices among student teachers; and community maps produced by English-only and English-learner parents as a basis for curricular innovation.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Emancipation

Chair

• Ronald David Glass, University of California - Santa Cruz

Papers

• Digital Stories as Freirean Codifications: Design Principles and Ethical and Political Considerations - Ronald David Glass, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Subjects of Codifications: An Inquiry Into Digital Story Tellers’ Experience - Linnea Kristina Beckett, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Queer Youth Video Making as a Space of Liberatory Possibilities: Concientização and a Theory of the Flesh - Cindy Cruz, University of California - Santa Cruz

• School Photographs as Freirean Ritualistic Codifications - Gustavo E. Fischman, Arizona State University

• Re-presenting and Rethinking Neighborhood Assets: Community Mapping With English-only and English-learner Parents as a Basis for Curricular Innovation - Pia I. Wong, California State University - Sacramento

Discussant

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of Colorado - Boulder