In a post on 6th July I reported on the outcomes of a splendid few days spent with many fine trade unionists from around the world at the annual Global Labour Institute Summer School. As I mentioned in that article the summer school is pitched in an explicitly political context.
Full details of the content/outcomes of the summer school is here: http://global-labour.net/iss16/
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| Participants at the GLI Summer School 2016 |
The accent on dialogue in the context of education which seeks to generate radical, social transformation is entirely appropriate for an event like the GLI summer school. For educationalists like Paulo Freire dialogue is not simply the mechanistic notion of conversation, but reflects a relationship of co-education between 'teachers' and 'students' who are jointly committed to political change. As Freire states in Pedagogy of the Oppressed:
“[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.”
Pedagogy of the Oppressed is Freire's classic statement on critical pedagogy for social transformation and change. You can read the book - and others like it here: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/
Below is a scan of the full article and my short, reflective piece.
In Solidarity
Ian
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