Description of the talk
Paulo Freire is one of the most important scholars of the twentieth century. He has had a profound impact across academic disciplines and throughout the adult, higher, and K-12 educational spheres. Freire’s legacy, however, is not primarily a product of his writings, but moreover, a product of the ways in which his ideas have been embraced, adapted, and reinvited by grassroots social movements and organizations globally. This session will overview some of Freire’s core ideas and contributions to educational philosophy and theory and reflect on the major influences on Freire's pedagogical practice.
About Professor Rebecca Tarlau
Rebecca Tarlau is Associate Professor of Education at Stanford Graduate School of Education. Dr. Tarlau was formerly Associate Professor of Education and of Labor and Employment Relations at the Pennsylvania State University, where she was the co-founder of the Penn State Consortium for Social Movements and Education Research and Practice. Her ethnographic research agenda has four broad areas of focus: (1) theories of the state and state-society relations; (2) social movements and popular education, labor education, and critical pedagogy; (3) Latin American education and development; and (4) teachers’ unions, teacher activism, and teachers’ work.
Readings
hooks, b. (1994). Chapter 4: Paulo Freire. In Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (45-58)
Carnoy, M and Tarlau, R. (2019) Chapter 12: Paulo Freire’s Continued Relevance for U.S. Education. In The Wiley Handbook of Paulo Freire, First Edition. Edited by Carlos Alberto Torres (221-237)
