[MD] Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy

[Ron Kulp]

> On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:01 AM, ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Arlo]
> I've mentioned Freire several times over the years. The perennial and, now, generational "educational crisis" in America, I believe, results from a societal inability to answer the fundamental question "why educate?" We talk about testing and assessment and standards but few can articulate a 'purpose' behind the structure, and those that can (and do) are those that have come to see education as a servant to capitalism; the goal of education is to meet labor demands.

Ron:
I had thought so, the more I develop
A clearer understanding of Pragmatism and RMP's MOQ, the more it becomes evident that the primary thrust and direction of that solution space lies in critical pedagogy.
I am currently still in the discovery stage and it's pleasing to see that this
Is a subject that has some history here.
To me, this is what a MOQ reconstruction
Model looks like.

Thnx!