Education for Liberation
8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Opening and closing sessions on Friday, January 25 & Friday, March 14 will take place at NYU (see NYCoRE’s website for time and location). In between, the class will meet on Mondays at the Brecht Forum. It will not meet on Monday, February 18.
The group will explore Paulo Freire's pedagogy and Augusto Boal's repertoire and how they can contribute to an education for liberation in NYC public schools. The goal is to bring these texts to life and make sense of them-- finding ways for people to put radical pedagogy into their daily practices, while also using theater of the oppressed tools and practices.
Questions to be explored will include: How can we create dynamics for people to become more interested in reading the world and the word so that they become involved in transforming the world? How can literacy be framed as critical conciousness so that folks become revolutionaries or authors of a new world? How can we build senses of solidarity & community to battle the rugged individualism of capitalist America and the fratricidal, dog eat dog mentality found in many schools?
Texts will include excerpts from Pedagogy of the Oppressed [red edition], Games for Actors and Non-actors, and assorted letters and "talking chapters" by Freire and others.
Pre-registration IS REQUIRED. Please register on NYCoRE website in the Inquiry to Action Groups (ItAGs) section.
Tuition: $30
OUR SPECIAL THANKS! The Brecht Forum owes its existence to a broad network of support. Our modest fees cover only a fraction of our costs and we rely on the progressive community for our financial survival. Hundreds of valued subscribers and donors provide steady contributions to all of our activities. Our programs are funded in part by Manhattan Neighborhood Network, The Bardon Cole Foundation, The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, The Surdna Foundation, and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
