Culture of Silence
Published on Nov 25, 2015
Freire TED 2250 Session 5
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Culture of Silence
- Ignorance & Lethargy are result of:
- political domination
- social domination
- economic domination
"Submerged"
- People are basically kept in the dark of a situation so
- that awareness and response are virtually impossible.
- They are not encouraged and equipped
- with a way to deal with the situation.
Emerging from the "Culture of Silence"
- -must look critically at the world
- equipped with the proper tools
- be able to eventually perceive reality and
- the contradictions in it
- People educate each other through the mediation of the world.
Freire says:
- a person wins back the right to his own world
- with education a person comes to a new awareness
- of self, and a new sense of hope
- they will no longer be mere objects
Teachers talk about reality like it is:
- motionless
- static
- predictable
- causes education to become lifeless & petrified
Narration leads to:
- mechanically memorizing content
- being filled with content by the teacher
- meek students being allowed to have info
- deposited into them
Knowledge emerges:
- through invention & re-invention
- the restless, continuing, hopeful inquiry
- of human beings in the world.
