EDRD 3120 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Consciousness Raising, Transformative Learning, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 3120
• Professor: Susan Brown

Document Summary

The novel is based on the author"s first hand life experience in terms of suffering from hunger due to his middle class family losing its economic base. He strives to not only enhance knowledge in education but enhance the overall knowledge regarding the struggle for national development. Persons often identify with representations that they are comfortable with or that can help deepen their understanding of themselves. There is no such thing as a neutral education. It either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the current system and bring conformity to it. Not only so, persons rarely admit to their fear of freedom and tend to camouflage it. View the details of sectarianism & radicalization (focus of the book) page. Blinded by rationality, cannot perceive realities dynamic. Right wing wants to slow down historical process (they try to domesticate) Left wing goes astray when they try to interpret (based on tomorrow)