The project works to promote research, education, and cultural work
that carries on the traditions that Freire helped establish. here we
work to cultivate the intellect while concurrently understanding the
way power works to construct human suffering. with these understandings
in mind, we seek to promote pedagogies that end oppression and the
suffering that accompanies it.
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In the tradition of paulo freire critical pedagogy works to make sure
that diverse peoples are understood and valued: the power of different
perspectives coming from divergent social locations is life changing;
the ways of assessing the abilities of individuals in the present
historical context are inadequate and misleading; oppression often
results from the confusion of cultural or social difference with
deficiency; the realization that those who are often deemed incapable
are some of the most brilliant and insightful people in the world; we

The project seeks out the many locales where teaching and learning
occur: this teaching and learning can be hegemonic or emancipatory; new
media have replaced many of teaching and learning functions of the
school; venues of entertainment become powerful sites of learning as
they engage consciousness along registers of pleasure--such pedagogies
can be complicit with dominant forms of power or resistant to dominant
power's subjugation and discipline; critical pedagogues seek to develop
new forms of pedagogy that engage but do not exploit these affective
dynamics.