[hr-education] Re: Critical pedagogy and HRE

Dear Abraham:

	You bring together a lot of pedagogical thinking in a provocative
way. I have no great difficulty accepting the goals.  I think you have to
deal more in detail with the role of the external agent.  It is not simply
a question of letting the students/learners take over, choosing the topics
etc.  Freire is also probably talking more about pedagogy, i.e. the role
of the external agent/teacher, than he is about how the learner learns
best.  Given the obvious and unavoidable power structure in any
student/teacher relationship, which modalities work best?

You ought to add more about the communitarian and inter-personal
dimensions of learning and rights-assertion (it is not enough to have
rights, you have to know them and organize to get them).  The teacher or
external education agent plays many roles: typically he/she will bring at
least resources, extra-community vision, and long-term mentoring capacity,
all of which are necessary to long-term growth.

Critical pedagogy is thus more about the ability of the external agents to
balance their inputs with the needs and capacities of the learners.  
Ultimately success is measured by the agents' growing redundancy and the
learners sustained growth.

Hope this helps.

Paul Martin, Columbia University




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