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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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