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Articles

(Re)existence in times of de-existence: political–pedagogical notes to Paulo Freire

Pages 468-478 | Published online: 19 May 2021
 

ABSTRACT

How are we to think about pedagogy and education in these present times when existence itself is in tension and question? As the pandemics of COVID-19, systemic racism, capitalist greed, and land-based plundering, displacement, and dispossession work together to reconfigure power and, relatedly, formal education, most especially in the Global South, what might it mean to think from and shift our gaze toward the decolonial ‘cracks’? How do these ‘cracks’ – understood as the extant and nascent fissures in the dominant order – take form? Who are the ‘crack-makers’ and in what ways, through their ground up theorizing, practice, and praxis, are they giving substance and form to the pedagogical imperatives of resistance, re-existence, hope, and life, imperatives conspicuously absent in the conceptualization and rhetoric of ‘quality education’? And finally, what might a reading and rereading of Paulo Freire offer in this regard?

¿Cómo pensar sobre la pedagogía y la educación en estos tiempos actuales en los que la existencia misma está en tensión y cuestionamiento? A medida que las pandemias de COVID-19, el racismo sistémico, la codicia capitalista, el desplazamiento, el despojo y la desteritorialización trabajan juntos para reconfigurar el poder y, en consecuencia, la educación formal, especialmente en el Sur Global, ¿qué podría significar pensar y cambiar nuestra mirada hacia las ‘grietas’ decoloniales? ¿Cómo toman forma estas ‘fisuras,’ entendidas como las fisuras existentes y nacientes en el orden dominante? ¿Quiénes son los ‘agrietadores y agrietadoras’ y de qué manera, a través de su teorización, práctica y praxis, están dando sustancia y forma a los imperativos pedagógicos de resistencia, reexistencia, esperanza y vida, imperativos notoriamente ausentes en la conceptualización y rétorica de ‘educación de calidad’? Y finalmente, ¿qué podría ofrecer una lectura y relectura de Paulo Freire al respecto?

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Notes

1 All quotes of Freire taken from Spanish language texts are my translation.

2 Remarks by President Rafael Correa in Guayaquil, on 29 May 2009, in the concentration in favor of teacher evaluation (Ministry of Education, Citation2010).

3 Revista Electrónica ‘Actualidades Investigativas en Educación’ Volumen 10, Número 1, Año 2010.

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