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RETHINKING FREIRE Globalization and the Environmental Crisis Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education Joel Spring, Editor Spring • The Cultural Transformation of a Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763–1995 Peshkin • Places of Memory: Whiteman’s Schools and Native American Communities Nespor • Tangled Up in School: Politics, Space, Bodies, and Signs in the Educational Process Weinberg • Asian-American Education: Historical Background and Current Realities Lipka/Mohatt/The Ciulistet Group • Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yu’pik Eskimo Examples Benham/Heck • Culture and Educational Policy in Hawai’i: The Silencing of Native Voices Spring • Education and the Rise of the Global Economy Pugach • On the Border of Opportunity: Education, Community, and Language at the U.S.-Mexico Line Hones/Cha • Educating New Americans: Immigrant Lives and Learning Gabbard, Ed. • Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: Politics and the Rhetoric of School Reform Glander • Origins of Mass Communications Research During the American Cold War: Educational Effects and Contemporary Implications Nieto, Ed. • Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools Benham/Cooper, Eds. • Indigenous Educational Models for Contemporary Practice: In Our Mother’s Voice Spring • The Universal Right to Education: Justification, Definition, and Guidelines Peshkin • Permissible Advantage?: The Moral Consequences of Elite Schooling DeCarvalho • Rethinking Family-School Relations: A Critique of Parental Involvement in Schooling Borman/Stringfield/Slavin, Eds. • Title I: Compensatory Education at the Crossroads Roberts • Remaining and Becoming: Cultural Crosscurrents in an Hispano School Meyer/Boyd, Eds. • Education Between State, Markets, and Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives Luke • Globalization and Women in Academics: North/West— South/East Grant/Lei, Eds. • Global Constructions of Multicultural Education: Theories and Realities Spring • Globalization and Educational Rights: An Intercivilizational Analysis Spring • Political Agendas for Education: From the Religious Right to the Green Party, Second Edition McCarty • A Place to Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling Hones, Ed. • American Dreams, Global Visions: Dialogic Teacher Research With Refugee and Immigrant Families Benham/Stein, Eds. • The Renaissance of American Indian Higher Education: Capturing the Dream Ogbu • Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagment Books, Eds. • Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools, Second Edition Spring • Educating the Consumer-Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media Hemmings • Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents Heck • Studying Educational and Social Policy Making: Theoretical Concepts and Research Methods Lakes/Carter, Eds. • Globalizing Education for Work: Comparative Perspectives on Gender and the New Economy Spring • How Educational Ideologies are Shaping Global Society: Intergovernmental Organizations, NGOs, and the Decline of the Nation-State Shapiro/Pupel, Eds. • Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World, Third Edition Books • Poverty and Schooling in the U.S.: Contexts and Consequences Reagan • Non-Western Educatioal Traditions: Alternative Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice, Third Edition Bowers, Ed. • Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis RETHINKING FREIRE Globalization and the Environmental Crisis Edited by C.A.Bowers University of Oregon Frédérique Apffel-Marglin Smith College LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS Mahwah, New Jersy London This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Copyright © 2005 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without prior written permission of the publisher. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 Cover photos by Naomi Silverman. Cover design by Kathryn Houghtaling Lacey. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Re-thinking Freire: globalization and the environmental crisis/ edited by C.A.Bowers, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8058-5114-3 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Developing countries—Economic conditions. 2. Globalization —Economic aspects—Developing countries. 3. Environmental degradation—Developing countries. 4. Globalization—Social aspects—Developing countries. 5. Human ecology—Social aspects— Developing countries. 6. Environmental education—Developing countries. 7. Freire, Paulo, 1921– I. Bowers, C.A. II. Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique. HC59.72.E5418 2004 337′.09172′4–dc22 2004040936 ISBN 1-4106-1174-4 Master e-book ISBN Contents Preface viii About the Editors and Contributors xvi Introduction 1 C.A.Bowers 1 From a Pedagogy for Liberation to Liberation From 13 Pedagogy Gustavo Esteva, Dana L.Stuchul, and Madhu Suri Prakash 2 Nurturance in the Andes 31 Grimaldo Rengifo Vasquez 3 Who Are the Oppressed? 48 Barbara Loyda Sanchez Bejarano 4 Vernacular Education for Cultural Regeneration: An 68 Alternative to Paulo Freire’s Vision of Emancipation Gustavo Terán 5 From Conscientization to Interbeing: A Personal 82 Journey Siddhartha 6 Whose Oppression Is This? The Cultivation of 99 Compassionate Action in Dissolving the Dualistic Barrier Phyllis Robinson 7 Cease to Do Evil, Then Learn to Do Good (A 113 Pedagogy for the Oppressor) Derek Rasmussen Contents vii 8 How the Ideas of Paulo Freire Contribute to the 131 Cultural Roots of the Ecological Crisis C.A.Bowers Afterword 149 C.A.Bowers Author Index 190 Subject Index 193 Preface The title of this collection of essays by Third World activists, Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis, highlights two major world changes overlooked by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grassroots cultural resistance to economic globalization and the ecological crisis. The essays by Third World activists are important for a number of reasons. First, their criticisms of Freire’s pedagogy are based on their attempts to combine consciousness raising with literacy programs in such diverse cultural settings as Bolivia, Peru, India, southern Mexico, and Cambodia. They discovered that Freire’s pedagogy is based on Western assumptions that undermine indigenous knowledge systems. The field testing of Freire’s pedagogy, which was carried out by local activists who were both personal friends of Freire and spoke the local languages, stands in sharp contrast to how Freire’s ideas are presented in English-speaking universities and by professors in Third World universities who have received advanced degrees in Western universities. That is, the Third World activists recognized the colonizing nature of the cultural assumptions underlying his pedagogy, whereas the Western professors with only a reading knowledge of his writings continue to think of them as universally valid. A second major limitation with Freire’s ideas, reproduced in the writings of his followers, is that he ignored until just before his death the cultural implications of the ecological crisis. Recently, Moacir Gadotti, the Director of the Instituo Paulo Freire in Brazil, urged educational reformers to understand that the chapter Freire wrote on the educational implications of the environmental crisis (for a book he was unable to finish because of his untimely death) establishes him as a leading theorist of an ecopedagogy. This pedagogy of the Earth, according to Gadotti (2000), must work for the creation of a new planetary citizenship—one that is based on a “unifying vision of the planet and a world society” (p. 8). Achieving this new planetary consciousness will require, as Gadotti extrapolates from previous Freire writings, eliminating “the Contents ix transmission of culture from one generation to the next.” That is, each generation is to create its own history by being critical of every aspect of daily life. Thus, the development of planetary citizenship will instead require educators to promote “the grand journey of each individual into the interior of his universe and in the universe that surrounds him.” Although Freire’s late acknowledgment of the ecological crisis is significant, it is even more important to understand that he did not recognize that the Western cultural assumptions that are the basis of his classic, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, cannot be reconciled with addressing the cultural roots of the ecological crisis. Unfortunately, Gadotti fails to recognize the imperialistic nature of the Freirean canon in his elaboration of a Freirean-based ecopedagogy. Thus, Freire’s influence continues, with an educational reform agenda that is dedicated to the elimination of the cultural/linguistic diversity that is the basis of the world’s biodiversity and that undermines the forms of intergenerational knowledge that are the basis of the diverse approaches to sustaining the local commons as sites of resistance to economic and technological globalization. The essays by the Third World activists represented in this book highlight Freire’s failure to understand that his emancipatory vision is based on the same assumptions that underlie the planetary citizenship envisioned by the neoliberals promoting the Western model of global development. More importantly, the essays provide a glimpse into the diversity of cultural ways of knowing and their approaches to nurturing the commons that have been systematically excluded from the writings of Freire and his followers. And it is their descriptions that need to be considered in determining whether the efforts of Western educational reformers are contributing to the revitalization of the commons or to undermining them in ways that further limit the prospects of current and future generations. OVERVIEW Introduction C.A.Bowers This provides the background for bringing together the Third World activists to share their experiences in using Freirean ideas in their

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This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.One source of the activist-auth
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