Education as Liberation?

Transformational Experience through Liberation Pedagogy: A Critical Look at Honors Education

In the context of the national debate over the advantages and disadvantages of honors education, we developed a two-semester honors curriculum designed to draw upon the benefits of integrating teaching and research through student participation in an ethnographic research project. This paper recounts the process of the pedagogy and curriculum and discusses some key findings and outcomes of the ...

Canadian Journal of Environmental Education

Freire’s influential text, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, relies on both anthropocentric and speciesist arguments to articulate a pedagogy for human liberation. While Freire’s anthropocentric understandings of “nature” have been more thoroughly critiqued, less attention has been given to his construction of nonhuman animals, in particular. I argue that Freire figures nonhuman animals in three main ...

"Liberation from Tutelage? A Sketch of Women's Education in 18th Century Germany"

Consumer education between ‘consumership’ and citizenship: experiences from studies of young people

The aim of consumer education has been mainly to teach and educate students to act as informed, rational and prudent consumers. This perception of consumption as reasoned behaviour or action is inadequate in the late modern society, where consumerism is first and foremost characterized by globalization, cultural change and the liberation of the individual. The results of a research study involv...

Muslim Women Education and Empowerment in Rural Aligarh (A Case Study)

For the development of rural environment, education should be taken on priority as it is the most important factor. Education is the basis for creativity and foresightedness that triggers change; it helps in economic growth, quality of life and quality of human resource. Education takes us away from tradition backwardness, darkness, poverty, misery and overpopulation to enlighten, prosperity an...

Analysis and comparison of the components of the curriculum and teaching - learning process and artistic perspective Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux

This article introduces the educational approach is based on critical theory. This study has sought to rely on the views of Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux and artistic elements and components of curriculum, teaching - learning extraction, analyzed, and compared to. In this paper we critically examine and compare the philosophical foundations of education, educational goals, method of education, ...