Ujwala--

No hair splitting here!

Why don't you give some examples of  how  you are seeing  Freirian 
ideas in practice?

Andrea


On Jan 8, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Ujwala Samant wrote:


> "The marxist stuff"? That's just a bit offensive.

> Perhaps we have different definitions of Marxism (not

> marxism)....

>

>>  The person and

>> the family disappear. <<

>

> Or appear as a larger communal family? Closer to the

> notions of family in Africa, Asia, perhaps not America

> or France or England. Where common good actually means

> common good, as I am privileged to see in my current

> work and which gives me back all the inspiration and

> energy I lost when working in academia. To see that

> praxis has meaning, it's our armchair cynicism that

> perhaps has us looking at it sceptically in our little

> wells, like little frogs we see the round patch of

> blue and think it is the sky?

>

>

>>> Also, the small face to face

>> community.

>> "Class struggle" and "critical praxis."  This may

>> well be a vocabulary

>> problem, but otherwise i will not yield an inch.  I

>> Think these are

>> short-cut words.  They often seem to be associated

>> with a top down

>> approach  and  a big hammer.<<

>

> Unless you see them in action, which as I said, I have

> been increasingly privileged to see. I think you are

> indulging in semantic hair splitting or perhaps your

> experiences of these terms has been negative or

> short-cuts to the real beauty of the kind of social

> change Freire talked about?

>

>> One of my heroes, Richard Cash,  who is  responsible

>> for saving

>> millions of children  through oral rehydration

>> therapy, says (I can't

>> find the exact quote) that you must go into the

>> local community, that

>> is where you will find the right questions to ask.<<

>

> Yes, and sometimes the communities will tell you to

> stop asking questions, and instead to listen, watch

> and learn.

>

> Cheers

> Ujwala

>

>

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