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The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically
unsustainable ways: (1) it increases the economic and political
power of the elites controlling and interpreting the data; (2) it
is based on the deep assumptions of market liberalism that do not
recognize environmental limits; (3) it undermines face-to-face and
context-specific forms of knowledge; (4) it undermines awareness of
the metaphorical nature of language; (5) its promoters are driven
by the myth of progress and thus ignore important cultural
traditions of the cultural commons that are being lost; and (6) it
both by-passes the democratic process and colonizes other cultures.
This book provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena and
connects them to questions of educational reform in the US and
beyond.
This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists
highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been
neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World
grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the
ecological crisis. One source of the activist-authors' criticisms
of Freire's pedagogy is rooted in their attempts to combine
consciousness raising with literacy programs in such diverse
cultural settings as Bolivia, Peru, India, Southern Mexico, and
Cambodia, where they discovered that Freire's pedagogy is based on
western assumptions that undermine indigenous knowledge systems.
Equally important, these authors make the case in various ways that
a major limitation with Freire's ideas, and which is reproduced in
the writings of his followers, is that he did not recognize the
cultural implications of the world's ecological crisis. Several
essays in the collection focus directly on how the cultural
assumptions Freire took for granted were also the assumptions that
gave conceptual and moral legitimacy to the Industrial
Revolution--and continue to be the basis of the thinking behind
economic globalization. The essays also explain why cultural
diversity is essential to the preservation of biological diversity,
and how intergenerational knowledge and patterns of mutual aid
within different cultures provide alternatives to a consumer
dependent lifestyle. In his Afterword, C.A. Bowers addresses the
need to adopt a more ecological way of thinking--one that
recognizes the many ways the individual is nested in the
interdependent networks of culture and how diverse cultures are
nested in natural systems. It also stresses that one of the tasks
of educators is to help students recognize the patterns and
relationships of everyday life, and to assess them in terms of
their contribution to less consumer dependent relationships and
activities. As the essays in this volume affirm, this involves
facilitating students' awareness of differences between cultures,
the impact of consumerism on ecosystems, and the connections
between hyper-consumerism and environmental racism and the
colonizing relationship of the South by the North. Re-Thinking
Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis is a major
contribution to this critical endeavor.
This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists
highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been
neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World
grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the
ecological crisis. One source of the activist-authors' criticisms
of Freire's pedagogy is rooted in their attempts to combine
consciousness raising with literacy programs in such diverse
cultural settings as Bolivia, Peru, India, Southern Mexico, and
Cambodia, where they discovered that Freire's pedagogy is based on
western assumptions that undermine indigenous knowledge systems.
Equally important, these authors make the case in various ways that
a major limitation with Freire's ideas, and which is reproduced in
the writings of his followers, is that he did not recognize the
cultural implications of the world's ecological crisis. Several
essays in the collection focus directly on how the cultural
assumptions Freire took for granted were also the assumptions that
gave conceptual and moral legitimacy to the Industrial
Revolution--and continue to be the basis of the thinking behind
economic globalization. The essays also explain why cultural
diversity is essential to the preservation of biological diversity,
and how intergenerational knowledge and patterns of mutual aid
within different cultures provide alternatives to a consumer
dependent lifestyle. In his Afterword, C.A. Bowers addresses the
need to adopt a more ecological way of thinking--one that
recognizes the many ways the individual is nested in the
interdependent networks of culture and how diverse cultures are
nested in natural systems. It also stresses that one of the tasks
of educators is to help students recognize the patterns and
relationships of everyday life, and to assess them in terms of
their contribution to less consumer dependent relationships and
activities. As the essays in this volume affirm, this involves
facilitating students' awareness of differences between cultures,
the impact of consumerism on ecosystems, and the connections
between hyper-consumerism and environmental racism and the
colonizing relationship of the South by the North. Re-Thinking
Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis is a major
contribution to this critical endeavor.
The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically
unsustainable ways: (1) it increases the economic and political
power of the elites controlling and interpreting the data; (2) it
is based on the deep assumptions of market liberalism that do not
recognize environmental limits; (3) it undermines face-to-face and
context-specific forms of knowledge; (4) it undermines awareness of
the metaphorical nature of language; (5) its promoters are driven
by the myth of progress and thus ignore important cultural
traditions of the cultural commons that are being lost; and (6) it
both by-passes the democratic process and colonizes other cultures.
This book provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena and
connects them to questions of educational reform in the US and
beyond.
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