I've always found a lot of enthusiasm for Freire and critical pedagogies in left spaces in real life and online, so maybe our definition of leftist differs here a little. I think the purpose of education is to create flourishing individuals who can work well in groups to meet their needs but can also be creative and self-actualised enough to be able to persue fulfilling projects. Political education should be of the utmost importance in leftists circles, it is impossible to have a revolutionary praxis otherwise. The ideal school system, and how much autonomy kids should have in education, is something that should probably be tailored to a group's specific context, but I think its important to give kids much more power in the classroom and within a schooling institution than they have right now (I really like what I've read in Freire, so maybe something like that).
Yeah I think that within the radical left the question is more of how to create the most humanistic education given different contexts. I feel like in highly technical fields the teacher-student dynamic will be more marked, but as it moves towards humanities, arts, and social sciences it should probably have more of that facilitator-group dynamic.
Yeah, teaching kids the contingency of all aspects of human society as well as the interconnections of all things with simple questions like that really primes them to become critical thinkers and eventually see the totality of existence dialectically.
I've always found a lot of enthusiasm for Freire and critical pedagogies in left spaces in real life and online, so maybe our definition of leftist differs here a little. I think the purpose of education is to create flourishing individuals who can work well in groups to meet their needs but can also be creative and self-actualised enough to be able to persue fulfilling projects. Political education should be of the utmost importance in leftists circles, it is impossible to have a revolutionary praxis otherwise. The ideal school system, and how much autonomy kids should have in education, is something that should probably be tailored to a group's specific context, but I think its important to give kids much more power in the classroom and within a schooling institution than they have right now (I really like what I've read in Freire, so maybe something like that).
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Yeah I think that within the radical left the question is more of how to create the most humanistic education given different contexts. I feel like in highly technical fields the teacher-student dynamic will be more marked, but as it moves towards humanities, arts, and social sciences it should probably have more of that facilitator-group dynamic.
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Yeah, teaching kids the contingency of all aspects of human society as well as the interconnections of all things with simple questions like that really primes them to become critical thinkers and eventually see the totality of existence dialectically.