Paulo Freire

What do you understand by the concept “Systems of Privilege”? Why is there resistance by those who possess it to recognize it? Support your answer with examples from BOTH of the following articles (1) Peggy McIntosh “White Privilege and Male Privilege” and (2) Iris Marion Young, “Five Faces of Oppression.” Try to connect the two readings and be sure to provide specific examples from both, including all five types of oppression. When you grow up, you start to realize that there are some things…

While Frederick Douglass’ “Learning how to read and write” was set in the nineteenth century and the documentary Precious Knowledge was filmed in the twenty first century, both works serve to show the reaction of how society views change. Frederick Douglass’ piece “Learning how to read and write” illustrates his struggle with literacy and Precious Knowledge illustrates the struggle of ethnic studies in a school district in Arizona. In the nineteenth century, a slave’s intellect was minimal and…

ORIGIN OF SELF HELP GROUPS, PERFORMANCE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION By R.BHAKTHER SOLOMON Development Consultant Introduction: In 1970 Paulo Freire in his book “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” used “Conscientization” as a Consciousness raising process to organise the poor. It is a popular social and education concept. Development professionals took a cue from this and thus came the principles of Education, Organisation, and Mobilisation as a strategy to empower the poor. Based on the local…

Introduction In the beginning of the course I want to study about women empowerment. When I read the transformative learning, I really see that as a tool for changing the society in a good way. I think that transformative learning can be the solution for the some misconcepts about gender issues as well. Then I realize that I can combine transformative learning and women empowerment issues, I can write about the women’s transformative learning paths. I decided to write about transformative…

Living in a first world country with many privileges often times allows society to turn their heads and not see the battles that third world countries have to go through daily. The challenges that people of Latin America face do not directly affect common Americans in fact in ways it benefits them therefore it is easily ignored. Currently there is and has been many social movements and social change in Latin America that are against multi transnational and national corporations. The poor and…

Betz, Gabrielle, and Jill M. Thorngren. "Ambiguous Loss and the Family Grieving Process." The Family Journal 14.4 (2006): 359-65. Web. This article talks about ambiguous grief and how it compares to traditional loss. Ambitious loss can be many things such as a miscarriage, a family member has Alzheimer’s disease, or losing custody of a child. Ambitious loss means there is no closure or clear understanding of what is happened/happening to a family member. This type of closure has a…

people are taking a stand and saying that Black lives matter they are not saying that other lives do not. They are trying to say that black lives mean just as much others. “No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.” (Paulo Freire) There is only one race, the human race. People cannot choose which humans are more “human” than…

What Does the Term Empowerment Mean? ‘Empowerment’ began with the concept of ‘conscientisation’ coined in 1968, by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian academic. Defined as process to which an oppressed person perceives the structural conditions of oppression. Subsequently, through conscientisation, groups are able to take action upon oppressors. In other words, groups and people become critically aware and awareness turns into action. The term empowerment took its origins from conscientisation in the 70s,…