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jacob silverman's avatar

convicting - he makes up his own words. There is no word "convicting." Does he mean like a prison convict? You may be oppressed, but please write better.

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Krista Loughman's avatar

I know I'm late on this, but I love your highlighting of Frerie so I had to comment.

I will say again what many have said before me, the fact that one can become a degree holding educator in the West without ever reading a word of Freire or knowing who he was, brings me deep sadness. What's funny is that I'm currently re-reading "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" and my copy has more things underlined than not.

New favorite line from him this read through: Speaking of the oppressed and the internal struggle to move from object (acted upon) to subject (the one who acts) due to what he labels as fear of freedom he says "They discover that without freedom they cannot exist authentically. Yet, although they desire authentic existence, they fear it." I often vasilate between identifying myself in the origins of Freire's oppressor and as oppressed. Here, I identify all to well with fear of freedom. What would actually happen if I lived into my full humanity of radical love and authentic dialogue?

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