The Supersensible Beyond: The Hegelian Dialectic in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed

• In Event: Roundtable Session 42
  In Roundtable Session: Freire's Thought, Social Justice, and Dialogical Strategies

Abstract

This piece considers the complexities of Pedagogy of the Oppressed as informed by critical theory, existentialism, Marxism and post-structuralism. We suggest this work is indebted to Hegel for the antagonisms as the essence of the material dialectic. Reflecting on the Hegelian dialectic, humanization and The Phenomenology of Spirit as a philosophical framework for notions of consciousness, transformative pedagogy, community, praxis and other Freire inspired teachings, we suggest these ideas have altered the social landscape foundational to critical pedagogy. We discuss personal consciousness and interrelatedness among humans, subjective understandings and inter-subjective experience, otherwise considered an objective reality, where humans share the scope of individual truths and interactions across a material landscape.

Authors

• Arturo Rodriguez, Boise State University

• Peter L. McLaren, Chapman University

• Kevin Russel Magill, University of Texas, Austin