Reviews for Philosophical analysis in education

The average rating for Philosophical analysis in education based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-03 00:00:00 Ralph Abel If you're into really sincere hippie guys, read this on the subway. They will swarm. Warning: they'll swarm even if you're not into them, so keep an "Atlas Shrugged" jacket handy! Actually, this book contains one of my guiding-light passages: "Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence. The means used are not important; to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects" (85). In my fascist state, that passage is tattooed -- in the original Portuguese -- on every single social worker, right before they head off into the field. Actually, why just the social workers, let's tattoo it on everyone, why not? It's a great line! I also like the stuff about the oppressors being very damaged by their oppressing. It's a very helpful concept that explains a lot. The education stuff? Weeelllll.... I grew up in Berkeley, where I never learned any actual math, and I have a strong suspicion someone's ideas for the experimental math curriculum were influenced by Freire, sooooo..... I'm biased. If I'd had a little more banking education as a youth, I might not need to take off my shoes now to balance my checkbook! It's hard to evaluate this book. It's kind of like the Beatles: I'm not really that into it, but where would we be today without its influence? It's impossible to know. That said, it's a little perplexing that a book about popular education should seem so willfully obtuse and difficult. This book is hard to get through. I didn't read all of it! Still, it's a good idea.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-05-03 00:00:00 Conor O'Neill Just finished my annual rereading of this book. Again, teachers in inner-city America, teachers on the plains, teachers in rural America--read or reread this book now. With attempts to oppress our students inside the classroom with more and more standardized crap, this is more than ever a must-read. My original review: Here is one of those books I think they oughtn't let a teacher in front of a secondary classroom without having read. Even the most affluent of our students in contemporary public education classrooms are oppressed to some degree. Oppression comes in many attractive wrappings. From the trite shite they are brainwashed to care about by the television, to the lies they hear about what their bodies must look like and what they must own to be somebody, I don't know how we ever humanize them anymore at all. Freire can be applied to every student...every classroom. Here was a man who was the real thing. A teacher. (May he rest...)