A Historical Remembrance of Paulo Freire in South Africa: A Tale of Two Activists

Autor/inn/en	Aitchison, John; McKay, Veronica
Titel	A Historical Remembrance of Paulo Freire in South Africa: A Tale of Two Activists
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 61 (2021) 3, S.334-354 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1443-1394
Schlagwörter	Activism; Critical Theory; Foreign Countries; Educational Philosophy; Racial Segregation; Public Policy; Social Change; National Programs; Literacy Education; Adult Literacy; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Personal Narratives; Racial Discrimination; Adult Education; Blacks; Whites; Educational History; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Kritische Theorie; Ausland; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Rassentrennung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Sozialer Wandel; nicht übertragen; Fakultät; Lehrerverhalten; Erlebniserzählung; Racial bias; Rassismus; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Black person; Schwarzer; White; Weißer; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	This article is based on our two narratives through which we explore how Freirean thought had an impact on our respective praxis as academic activists in apartheid South Africa. We reflect specifically on the influence the work of Freire had on informing and advancing our respective struggles against apartheid education. This article therefore emanates from our process of thoughtful dialoguing and writing about how our understandings of Freire enabled us to contribute to the South African struggle for liberation in our respective spaces. We discuss, as a starting point, our early engagements with Freirean literature during our separate journeys. We then reflect through our latter discussion on our combined efforts to design, develop and implement a large-scale Freirean-infused national literacy campaign in post-apartheid South Africa. These efforts were informed by our understandings of Freirean thought. The article aims to show the early and the continued relevance of Freire's work, during the struggle for liberation in South Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century. It also shows how Freirean thought remained relevant in the early twenty-first century through, among other things, the implementation of adult literacy. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01