Freire Institute

Freire's notion of cultural action forms the basis for this course on how to understand and examine the cultural environment around us, including everyday values, ideologies and beliefs.

This is a course on understanding how social movements and faith communities can act as agents of change, and the forces blocking them; the collective myths and underlying conflicts in the environment or groups with which we work; and tools for the analysis of change - how interventions can reinforce or transform the social reality.

Topics

• Paulo Freire’s notion of cultural action.
• The concept of conscientization in Freire’s work.
• Key thinkers in culture, ideology and belief
• Social conformity and nonconformity.
• The state and hegemony.
• Issues around class, identity, race and gender.
• Faith-based movements.
• Secularization and fundamentalism.
• The idea of a global ethic and its possibilities.

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