Saturday, February 14, 2009

Freire: A discourse

Dialogue is mostly what Freire has talked about in chapter 3 of " Pedagogy of the oppressed". But reading through the article I realised that the acts of dialogue, objectives, their rationale is not just limited to mere dialogues, but to almost every aspect of our being. The word has its duality of action and reflection upon which the chapter is constructed. But here I must say Freire means much more than words, this duality encompasses every moment of our life whether in dialogue or silence.
May be this all makes very little sense, the point is we need to see the article not only related to dialogues but it connects with us in bigger and broader senses.

1 comment:

vikram bhambhu said...

Very true,
The dialogue/action/ reflection/ reaction helps to improve any process by giving a good and corrective feedback but most of the times the power differences between various actors limits this process. Apart from that bounded rationality of people also plays a negative role in the process