What is Dialogic Education? Paulo Freire
This is a brief discussion of Paulo Freire's explanation of the dialogic education. For more details please watch my videos on Chapter 3 of Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Freire: The Banking System of Education
This is a brief lecture explaining Paulo Freire's discussion of the Banking Concept of Education. As one of the world's foremost theorist of education, Freire in his book, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," lays the foundations of what eventually becomes the [...]
What Does Being Radical Mean?
Being Radical The term being radical is often used to connote a negative transformation of a person and is often conflated with radicalization. We have often heard and read the terms Islamic Radicalism (I am guilty of using such [...]
Teaching Postcolonialism in Pakistan
For me, teaching postcolonialism, both theory and literature, to Pakistani graduate students is an act of shattering stereotypes, and an experience in introducing counter-narratives. I start teaching postcolonialism with my initial lectures focusing on an introduction to binaries of [...]
The Learning Paradigm
A few years ago, some of my senior colleagues at Kent State University decided to start a pedagogy discussion group. Almost all of us in the group were heavily invested in social justice pedagogy and generally believed that a well-informed [...]