Liberating Social Theory: Inspirations from Paulo Freire for Learning, Teaching, and Advancing Social Theory in Applied Settings
Proceedings of the First Annual Social Theory Forum, April 7, 2004, UMass Boston
Discourse of Sociological Practice
Department of Sociology, UMass Boston
Volume 6 • Issue 2 • Fall 2004
Guest Editor of this Proceedings Issue:
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, UMass Boston
Description
The first annual Social Theory Forum conference at UMass Boston focused on the exploration of applied strategies for learning, teaching, and research in a liberating framework—i.e., strategies that adopt practical and critical transformative attitudes towards taken-for-granted and habituated social structures. In this pursuit, it sought to draw inspirations from Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy and philosophy for the promotion of liberating theoretical literacy.
Number of Pages: 280
Language: English
7×10 inches
Contents
From the Editor: Can Social Theory Be Liberating?
Siamak Movahedi
Freire vs. Marx: The Tension Between Liberating Pedagogy and Student Alienation
Jonathan Martin
Teaching, Learning, Diversity: Just Don’t Call It Epistemology
Esther Kingston-Mann
Questioning Pedagogy: Reflections on the Critical Theory of Curriculum
Bart Bonikowski
Helping Students Make Sense of Mills’ Sociological Imagination
Estelle Disch
Commentary: Staying True to Freirean Praxis as well as Theory
Tim Sieber
Critical Pedagogy of Writing: Evaluation of Possibilities and Limitations in the Context of Authoritarian Japan
Rika Yonemura
Toward a Non-Essentialist Pedagogy of “Islam”
Khaldoun Samman
Marx, Arendt and Habermas on Common Interests and Public Action: Reflections on the Modern Indian State
Kelli Joseph
A Synergistic Curriculum for the Distressed: Mediating the Accommodation of Diverse Students into Academia
Leor Alcalay
Commentary: Pedagogy and Praxis in the International Sphere
Rajini Srikanth
The Sociology of Why I Smoke: Theoretical Reflections on a Deadly Habit
Emily Margulies
A Sociological Analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and With Her in Ourland
Haley Salinas
Oliver C. Cox on Caste, Class and Race: Theoretical and Policy Implications for a Color Blind Society
Milton Butts, Jr.
Charles Cooley: Traveler in the Inner and Social Worlds
Glenn Jacobs
Freire Meets Gurdjieff and Rumi: Toward the Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Oppressive Selves
Mohammad Tamdgidi
The Poet and the Educator: Notes for a Comparative Study on the Early Works of Octavio Paz and Paulo Freire
Jorge Capetillo-Ponce
Commentary: Transformation of the Self: Pedagogies from the Margin
Emmett Schaefer
Selected Student Feedbacks on Freire
Shkeya Brittle, David St.Clair, Jessica Santiccioli, Richard Batakis, Paul Kane, Karla Rainford, Efrain Toledano
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