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FREIRE
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE
22 APRIL 2008
INTRODUCTION
Gramsci
Freire
INTRO (cont.)
Their work occurred in different contexts
and at different times
GRAMSCIS INFLUENCE
ON FREIRE
...I only read Gramsci when I was in
exile. I read Gramsci and I discovered
that I had been greatly influenced by
Gramsci long before I had read him. It
is fantastic when we discover that we
had been influenced by someones
thought without even being introduced
to their intellectual production
Marxian influence
In volume IV of his edited critical edition of
the Quaderni del Carcere (Prison Notebooks),
Valentino Gerratana provides the list of texts
by Marx and Engels that Gramsci cites in the
Notebooks. These include:
Marxian influence
Marxian Influence
Marxian influence
Dialectical style of Pedagogy of the
Oppressed
Gramsci and Freire:
a Marxian conception of ideology
The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression
of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material
relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships
which make one class the ruling one, therefore the ideas of
its dominance.
IDEOLOGY
Gramsci saw ideas reflecting dominant material
relationships as residing in common sense :
contains elements of good sense but is a
distorted and fragmentary view of the world
Freire: popular consciousness full of ideology.
Freire (earlier work): different levels of
consciousness ranging from nave to critical
consciousness.
Resources of hope
Both refuse evolutionary economic
determinist theories of social change.
Gramsci: theories of grace and
predestination.
Freire: a liberating fatalism
Capitalist Developments
Scene from
Modern Times
Taylorisation
Freire: Neo-Liberalism
Milton Freidman
Capitalist
Reorganisation
- signs of Capitalist
reorganization
to counter the
tendency of the rate
of profit to fall, owing
to the crises of
overproduction
Praxis
Aristotle
AUTHORITY AND
FREEDOM
Freire distinction between authority and
freedom
echoes Gramscis
AUTHORITY &
FREEDOM
Gramsci: Rousseau-inspired school to
move from romantic to classical phase
Freire: educators directivity should not
interfere with learners creative capacity.
CULTURE
High order knowledge vs popular
knowledge
Unitarian school and popular-public
school
Spoken and written words
Complementarity
SOURCE
Source: Peter Mayo, Gramsci, Freire and Adult
Education. Possibilities for Transformative Action,
Zed Books, 1999