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Unit 7 Introduction to critical theory
Critical theory, society, community and commitment
Goal of these lectures
• Understanding of critical theory • The relationship between critical theory and
community thinkers
• Critical theory and Paulo Freire• Critical theory and Kwame Appiah• Critical theory and Bell Hooks, Patricia Hill-
Collins and Martha Nussbaum• Postmodernism and Giddens• Gender and postmodernism
Critical theory
The history of critical theory
• The political and ideological dimension• Crititical theory and the frankfurter
school:Adorno, Fromm, Horkheimer, Marcuse
Frankfurter Schule
• Crititical theory and the frankfurter school:Adorno, Fromm, Horkheimer, Marcuse
Jürgen Habermas
• Habermas and communicative action• Habermas and critical theory
Critical theory and epistomology
Critical theory and methodology
Critical theory and hermeneutics
Paulo Freire (1921-1971)
Paulo Freire from a critical theoretical perspective
• Who is Paulo Freire?
• Why use his educational philosophy as an example for critical theory
Cycle of action-learning (Freire, 1970)
analyses
reflectionaction
awareness
Dialogue, awarenessraising (conscientização)
The main concepts of his transformational pedagogy
• Pedagogy of the oppressed; a philosophical and revolutionary pedagogical proposal.
Critical theory, Freire and Galeano
Why choose for Freire and Galeano? Latin America:
Isabel Allende, Garcia Marquez and Pablo Neruda
• Contextual similarities? Frantz Fanon, Frank Martinus Arion, V.S. Naipaul, stuart Hall and or Edward Said.
• The culture of Silence, the culture of shame; out of the culture of domination.
• Contextual differences? Freire is a educational philospoher and Galeano is a writer, who rewrites the history of Latin America.
Freire and Aruba
• Dialoque as an instrument to raise consciousness=>
• Selfawareness, naming your own reality, the politics and therefore the interest of eduction of words of philosophy
• Freires legacy in Aruba (examples; innovation in Aruban elementary education, papiamento as an instruction language
• Consciouness, critical attitude, vision of a liberated humanity.
• …ongoing forms of critique and a struggle against objective forces of oppression
• Understanding and deconstructing power dimensions within social relations
• Humanizing liberation processes• Transforming social and political realities