Pedagogy of the oppresses

Paulo Freire, was a Latin America teacher very important for Psychology. He proposed the critical pedagogy. His importance nowadays is connected to the fact that he created a pedagogy based in Latin America and its process of domination. He has many books, but I like two, first “pedagogy of the oppresses” (pedagogía del oprimido) and second “pedagogy of the question”(pedagogía de la pregunta). I found out about him when I participated in a community school and there, the teachers talked about him. And my process to know about him, was a practical process, because the community school practiced that pedagogy. It was a very educational experience.

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I use this theory for my pedagogy work or in my life, because is not only a relation between the students and teachers, he proposed a way of relating with the others and the humanity.

I would like to recommend him because it is important to study our processes like Latin Americans. And from here write our history, theory, arts or political propose. Because we are a particular continent with a particular history, and we need to know: What is to be Latin American?

Enaction,

There are many ideas or words difficult to understand, maybe because we don’t have the experience necessary to think about that. But the experience is not an information or representation about the ideas. The experience is a enaction into the world.

For example, the concept of “dialectics” is a very complex concept. Because we can know  what is the dialectic, but the dialectics is a  moving concept,  is a continuous process. To understand the dialectics process we need anchoring the concept in our body or experience and then put it in motion.

In physical exercise there is an exercise called “sticks". In this exercise, the actors are thrown a stick. And this sticks can´t touch the floor, but at the same time we need to demand our fellows more difficulty. But if the sticks touch the floor, the play is over.

In this exercise, we can experience enactively, the opposition, but this opposition we need each other to exist. In this metaphor we can see the dialectic process and maybe we can think other characteristics about the concept… in an enactive process.  

My grandmother Maria.

Is uncomfortable talk about she... but I need talk.

The last week, she called me to talk and insisted me to go  and visit her. I say " Mari is late maybe tomorrow?" and She said "fine, but tomorrow in the morning...".  My grand mother, never insisted me to go... but this day was different...

I took the picture in her home, in the last party in her home. I like the picture because she wanted to look pretty. And she's smiling to me...

My grandmother died last week , one day after I visited her. She talked to me about the their fears but maybe she was preparing me to confront my feelings or maybe... I don´t know what that conversation means. But is my favourite conversation, maybe some time later, it can now…   

Thank for call me, thank for this day and this picture. I love you.