Week 10 - Paulo Freire_Guiding Questions

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Paulo Freire Guiding Questions I. "Love Humanity" (video) 1). According to the video, "Love Humanity," our planet is beautiful because of its diversity, and the most precious beings of them all are humans. II. "The Greatest Commandment" (video) 2). In the video, "The Greatest Commandment," a man asks Jesus, "Which is the first commandment of all?" Jesus answers, love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, and with all thy strength. Jesus continues, saying, _______________________________________________. 3). In the video, "The Greatest Commandment," Jesus says that the second commandment is similar to the first. He tells the crowd that this second commandment says Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. 4). In the video, "The Greatest Commandment," after Jesus explains the two great commandments, a man repeats what Jesus said back to him. Listening, and impressed with the man's understanding of the two greatest commandments, Jesus then says to the man, thou art not far from the kingdom of God.
III. Paulo Freire: Part I--Slavery 5). In "Paulo Freire: Part I," your teacher explains that Paulo Freire is part of this week's unit because his motivations were essentially religious. 6). In "Paulo Freire: Part I," your teacher explains that Paulo Freire is part of this week's unit because he was motivated by the ideas of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx. Both of those men were concerned about the suffering of the poor. 7). According to "Paulo Freire: Part I," by the time the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, in what became the United States, Mexico, South America, and all over the Caribbean, slavery was a well-established practice. 8). According to "Paulo Freire: Part I," sugar cane was native to Brazil. True or False ? 9). According to "Paulo Freire: Part I," when Columbus landed in the Caribbean, one of the first things he did was to capture Indians, enslave them, and take them back to the king and queen as curiosities. 10). According to "Paulo Freire: Part I," Church authorities in Brazil supported slavery. True or False?
11). According to "Paulo Freire: Part I," warfare against Indians, the enslavement of Indians, and efforts to control enslaved Indians, were all viewed as being in the service of God and the Portuguese king. 12). According to "Paulo Freire: Part I," more African slaves were taken to Brazil than to any other place in the Americas or the Caribbean. True or False? 13). According to "Paulo Freire: Part I," both slaves and Indians were viewed by whites as being inferior. They were expected to be submissive to do what they were told 14). According to "Paulo Freire: Part I," Brazilian society was highly stratified, with whites on top and slaves and Indians at the bottom. 15). According to "Paulo Freire: Part I," the Brazilian government passed a law in 1888 that prohibited slavery. Despite the law, slavery persisted into the 1930s. IV. Paulo Freire: Part II-- Pedagogy of the Oppressed 16). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," Paulo was born in 1921. Slavery was still a reality in Brazil. 17). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," Brazil is a deeply religious country. It is a Roman Catholic country, as it has been since the Portuguese first established settlements there in the early 1500s.
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18). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," Christians believe that, if they have faith in the divinity of Jesus, they too will go to heaven after they die. 19). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," the Eucharist, sometimes known as "The Lord's Supper" or simply as communion is Christianity's main ritual. 20). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," perhaps the main way that Catholics demonstrate their love for others is through good works 21). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," similar to what happened to Gramsci under Mussolini's fascist regime, Brazil's violent, right-wing regime arrested and imprisoned Freire as a "subversive." Why? Because he was teaching people to think for themselves. 22). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," i n 1968 Freire published a book that since has become world famous. It was called Pedagogy of the Oppressed 23). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," Pedagogy of the Oppressed seeks to help students question and challenge those individuals and groups striving to dominate them. True or False? 24). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," Freire did not accept Christianity's message of loving others. True or False ?
25). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," l ike Marx, Freire believed that awareness of one's true situation, or conscientização , is the first step toward making real change. 26). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," an ideology is an unexamined belief. 27). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," Freire's approach to teaching, that is, his "pedagogy," was based on the presence of mutual between teacher and student, where both listened and learned from the other. 28). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," Paulo felt that traditional modes of educating students mirrored the oppression experienced by Brazil's illiterate descendants of slaves at the hands of the white elites. 29). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," Freire's approach--this pedagogy of the oppressed--is based in the Christian concept of loving others. 30). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," i n Peru, a theologian and priest by the name of Gustavo Gutierrez embraced liberation theology. 31). According to "Paulo Freire: Part II," Marxist in philosophy and a Christian in heart, Paulo moved through life with an unwavering commitment to Jesus' Two Great Commandments--to love God completely and to love others completely.
V. Freire's Christian Faith 32). According to " Freire's Christian Faith," Paulo Freire was one of the most well-known educators in the world. 33). According to " Freire's Christian Faith," Freire’s religious beliefs seem to have influenced much of his theory and practice. 34). According to " Freire's Christian Faith," his faith seemed to provide him with a personal motivation for his work. True or False? 35). According to " Freire's Christian Faith," he wrote about “the fundamental importance of [his] faith in [his] struggle for overcoming an oppressive reality and for building a less ugly society, one that is less evil and more humane. 36). According to " Freire's Christian Faith," later in his life, even into the years just before his death, Freire maintained clear religious convictions. 37). According to " Freire's Christian Faith," Freire described his work as responding to a call: “The Word of God is inviting me to re-create the world, not for my brothers’ domination but for their liberation. 38). According to " Freire's Christian Faith," for Freire, the best way to teach the Gospels was to try to live them as a call to social action.
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VI. "What is Liberation Theology?" (video) 39). According to the speaker in "What is Liberation Theology?" the main contribution of liberation theology global Christianity is a preferential option for the poor. 40). According to the speaker in "What is Liberation Theology?" Jesus went out and found the people on the outskirts of the society, the people that were forgotten or just in the margins, and that's where he concentrated his efforts. 41). According to the speaker in "What is Liberation Theology?" the preferential option for the poor really ought to say: "What is God saying to the Church from the poor?" VII. The Major Tenets of Liberation Theology 42). According to "The Major Tenets of Liberation Theology," the challenge in a continent like Latin America does not come primarily from the man who does not believe, but from the man who is not a man who is not recognized as such by the existing social order: he is in the ranks of the poor, the exploited he is the man who scarcely knows that he is a man. 43). According to "The Major Tenets of Liberation Theology," the Gospel tells us that the poor are the supreme embodiment of our neighbor.
44). According to "The Major Tenets of Liberation Theology," in the ultimate analysis, poverty means death; unjust and early death. Missionaries of the 16th century, some years after their arrival on this continent, said, ‘The Indians are dying before their time.’ Well, it was true certainly, but it’s true today also. The poor are dying before their time because poverty means death—unjust and early death.” VIII. Paulo Freire and the Development of Critical Pedagogy 45) According to "Paulo Freire and the Development of Critical Pedagogy," Freire's educational philosophy harshly criticizes what he calls the banking model of education. 46). According to " Paulo Freire and the Development of Critical Pedagogy ," the banking model of education sees students as passive, empty receptacles to be filled by the wise, all-knowing teacher. 47). According to " Paulo Freire and the Development of Critical Pedagogy ," in the same ways that the colonizer thinks that his own ways are always best, the teacher who sees students as hollow vessels is participating in a process that discourages critical thought, perpetuates oppresion and dehumanizes both.
48). According to " Paulo Freire and the Development of Critical Pedagogy ," Freire wrote in his later works that education is fundamentally an act of love .
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