Week 2

1. Where is Paulo Freire from (where was he born?) He was born September 19, 1921 a non- orthodox form considered liberation theology. He was born In Recife, Brazil. He died May 2, 1997 from heart failure.

2. What was his family, upbringing like? He grew up in a Christan family as a Catholic under difficult conditions badly stricken by poverty, so he was brought up in poor conditions and experienced consequences of social discrimination, hunger and lack of freedom of expression. He struggled to be educated and finally entered Recife University.

3. What professions did Paulo Freire have? Brazilian professor and educator, Writer/Author, a pedagogy who expanded the world of the causes of human suffering and need to develop an ethical and Utopian pedagogy for social change. Short career as a lawyer, he taught Portuguese in secondary schools, then adult education and workers' training becoming first director of Department of Cultural Extension of university of Recife, then spent 5 years working for international organizations in the context of christian democratic agrarian reform movement due to being considered a dangerous political pedagogue and went to jail for 70-days and forced into a 15 year exile. After the movement, he had a short teaching at Harvard, then moved to Geneva to be a special education advisor to World Congress of Churches...he did this for a decade and then returned to Brazil and the military brazilian government lifted his travel restrictions. He started from a psychology of oppression influenced by the works of psychotherapists Freud, Jung, Alder, Fanon and Fromm and developed a Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

4. What political challenges did he face? Brazilian literacy, expelled from a country, political and social life of brazil, children going to school, domination of foreign capital consignment of profits to foreign lands, Utopian challenge to radicalize social practices. Opposing educational policies, challenged and re-invented to face the new century and social justice with his struggle to simultaneously strike four keys literacy, education, production and social change.

5. What is his experience with literacy? What is the definition of literacy? Literacy is the ability to read and write. Much of the discourse of education throughout the world is in reference to Paulo Freire. He has joined in writing dozens of books and designed the most effective of current literacy programs. He struggled to create liberation or as he said "Read the word of the world" or archaeology of consciousness which masters the word in order to understand and change the world which happens through literacy techniques and overcoming the oppression of cultural silence...he gave liberation from the theological point of view and showed others how to be superior to the myths that chained them.

6. What areas of Latin America did he live in? What is the definition of Latin America? Brazil, Chile,Bolivia, Latin America is: the parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken.

7. What languages did he speak?Portuguese,Spanish, and French

8. What is his greatest written work? Pedagogy of the Oppressed and letters to Cristina.

9. What is dialogue? conscientization? praxis? Dialogue: Transforming education, Paulo Freire was concerned with praxis - action that is ... was his concern with conscientization - developing consciousness, ... Important exploration of dialogue and the possibilities for liberatory practice. ...They are all linked to the Pedagogy of Oppressed.

10. How does Paulo Freire define privilege and oppression? Does this have anything to do with
finances?

social relations that keep privilege and oppression alive and both the privileged and the oppressed defines an “educated person” What responsibilities do members of privileged groups have not to participate in oppressive practices"yes it does have some finance reference in that some do not always get their power through physical force and some need financial backing to be privileged.



10 multiple choice 5 chapters/5 internet

1. What are the five aspects of Paulo Freire's work that have a particular significance for our purposes here.

1. dialogue, praxis, conscientization, experience, metaphors **
2. praxis, social capital, community, working with each other, curricula
3. community, capital, working, curricula, praxis, working with each other
4. community, working, education, praxis, metaphors
5. conscientization, experience, praxis, working, community

2. How does Paulo Freire tend to argue?
1. Either/or way **
2. Constructed
3. Non-formal
4. Predefined
5. Encounter

3. How does Paulo Freier overturn everyday situations?
1. Structured
2. Pedagogical **
3. Curriculum –based
4. Educational
5. Transforming

4. What is Taylor’s analysis of Freier’s literacy programme?
1. Importance of dialogue, engagement, equality and denounced silence **
2. Liberatory practice
3. Close inspection
4. Closer to banking than we wish
5. Problem-posing

5. What are problems regarding Freire’s model of literacy?
1. His work has not shrugged off assumptions of autonomous model **
2. Educator’s have to teach
3. Importance of rhetoric
4. Albeit benign
5. Eloquently critizes

6.What reveals a teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside school?
1. Fundamentally narrative character**
2. Capital of Para Belem
3. Brazil
4. Receptacles
5. Transforming power

7.What is the concept of education?
1. Receive
2. Invention
3. Banking **
4. Analysis
5. Inquiry

8. What is the capital of Para?
1. Brazil
2. Chile
3. Belem **
4. Para
5. Latin America

9. What does Fromm call the opposite of Biophily?
1. Flower
2. Growth
3. Transform
4. Necrophily **
5. Love

10. What does banking education begin with?
1. A functional manner
2. False understanding of men as objects **
3. Organic into inorganic
4. Necrophilous
5. Control


5 HUMANITIES multiple choice questions:

1.What are humanities?
1. Empirical
2. Academic disciplines **
3. Languages
4. Law
5. Linguistics

2. What are examples of the disciplines of humanities?
1. Classics
2. Oldies
3. History, conditions, nature, sciences
4. Ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion and visual and performing arts and music **
5. Technology, anthropology

3. The philosopher Plato is by?
1. Paulo Freier
2. Fromm
3. Silanion **
4. Performing arts
5. Freud

4. what is mainly distinguished of natural and social sciences?
1. Empirical approaches **
2. Cultural studies
3. Humanism
4. Antihumanist
5. Social sciences

5.What forms the backbone of modern study of humanities?
1. Poetry
2. Drama
3. Individual modern and classical languages **
4. Common parlance
5. Rule of ethics


10 Classmates multiple choice from Week 1:

1 President Obama's speech was to:
a. accept the Nobel Peace prize *
b. commemorate the United States joining the United Nations
c. commemorate the formation of the United Nations
d. send a message to Muslims across the world that the United States was not going to back down
e. Open lines of communication to get a better deal on oil from the Middle East (Carrie)

2.When did Barack say he hopes to remove all our forces from Iraq?
a. 2012*
b. 2010
c. 2011
d. 2014
e. 2013 (Jasmin)

3. What two founding fathers did President Obama refer to early in his speech?
a. George Washington and John Adams
b. Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton
c. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson*
d. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
e. John Adams and Alexander Hamilton (Jesse)

4. Which country was NOT mentioned during the speech?
A) Israel
B) Chile*
C) U.S.
D) Afghanistan (Justin)

5. How many mosque’s are in our borders?
A. 6
B. 42
C. 500
D. 42,000
E. 1,200* (Kerby)

6. 2. How many Muslims currently reside in the US?
a. 2 million
b. 10 million
c. 7 million *
d. 15 million
e. 1 million (Lucy)

7. Obama states he is Christian, and his father came from a _______ family.
A. Kenyan*
B. Haitian
C. Afghani
D. Iraqi (Renee)

8. In his Cairo speech, what did Obama describe violence as?
a. Means of change
b. A dead end *
c. A war tactic
d. Unnecessary
e. All of the above (Summer)

9. What year did President Obama mention that he was going to remove troops from Iraq?
a.2015
b.2013
c.2012*
d.2020 (Teresa)

10. What word did President Obama use to describe 9/11?
*A. Traumatic
B. Dangerous
C. Cruel
D. Ignorant
E. Indescribable (Cassandra)


My template Dialogue:

Dialogue Structure for Practice:
When I researched ________ I found ______________.
I noticed _________ had the same search result in that _____________.
I wonder if the topic we researched would have __________ in that ______________.

When I researched Teresa's page, I found that I studied very different areas. I noticed that most of the course is similar in my research answers and had the same research result in that they think beyond the box. I wonder if the topic we researched would have been any different if we all came from California and not traveled anywhere else in that we would all look from the same eye.

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freier
www.answers.com/topic/paulo-freier
Pedagogy of Hope by Freire Paulo

Checklist for week 2:

x__ 1. Class Theoretical Framework: Paulo Freire via online closed captioned (cc) videos
_x_ 2. Original text work: reading online selected chapters of Pedagogy of the Oppressed
_x_ 3. Answer questions regarding the online sources and Pedagogy of the Oppressed
_x_ 4. Create a blog post called Week 2; cut and paste your questions/answers into week 2
_x_ 5. Create 10 multiple choice questions regarding Paulo Freire (5 from online references/links, 5 from chapters)
_x_ 6. Read other theoretical frameworks in the Humanities
_x_ 7. Create 5 multiple choice questions regarding diverse theoretical frameworks in the Humanities. Cut and paste into 'Week 2' blog post.
_x_8. Review 10 classmates work from week 1; choose one multiple choice 'test' question created by each of these 10 classmates (put name in parenthesis for each classmate question so we know the source). Cut and paste into 'Week 2' blog post.
x_9. Create one sample of dialogue using structure
x__ 10. Submit your Week 2 link into our LOGIN area so that we can all enjoy your work! Be sure to test it there by clicking on your classmates links and seeing what they see.