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A little🧵on the great Pedagogy of the Oppressed:

@ForsaScp @ainehyland @Education_Ire Has it returned to @Education_Ire ? @tusla still have control of SCP as far as I'm aware.

Professor emeritus @ainehyland addressing the keynote speakers #ForsaSCP20 requesting SCP be given even and stable footing having returned to @Education_Ire

Fully agree!

@noreencoughlan @ForsaScp We agree 👍

Powerful words. ❤ The Schools Completion Programme is essential in our education system. @ForsaScp #ForsaSCP20

We had a great afternoon discussing critical pedagogy and Paolo Freire's legacy in @MarinoInstitute today with @SchoolofEdTCD students. Lots of interesting topics which will be explored in an upcoming event we plan to host. #CriticalThinking #education #edutwitter

My newest book arrived today!!!

@HannaghMc Tinsmithing preservation & proper recognition of Traveller culture could happen if included in Engineering curriculum at second level or offered as an apprenticeship. Same goes for Cant/Gammon language. @NCCAie @ETBIreland @TeachingCouncil.

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Coming soon: leading thinkers on education for social change will come together for a live debate on 8 Feb. Join us online to hear Doug Bourn @ioe_derc and guests including @LiamWegimont and @skambalu. bit.ly/3sbnLZ7

"Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed" Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Michel Foucault said that many years before 'the new normal' or 'return to normality' became common parlance.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible-the new normal.

"When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own." Oscar Romero

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. Henry Giroux

"I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression." Oscar Romero

"Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination." Was this contradiction addressed by the leadership who prescribed the reading?@molloy1916

The Brazilian educator who helped shape prisoners in the Maze rte.ie/brainstorm/202… via @rte

Online learning alternatives are a viable option. Mainstream schooling does not suit everyone. Innovative online tutoring platforms such as @iscoil should be widened & funded not just to combat covid absenteeism but at all times.

Happy new year everyone. Remember that critical pedagogy is a pedagogy of love and hope. Dare to dream and work for a better and fairer world in 2022.

Merry Christmas and an emancipatory New Year!