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Here is a little about Dewey's influence on Freire from *Reading Paulo Freire: his life and work* By Moacir Gadotti http://books.google.com/books?id=X_bQMqoXBpYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=freire&hl=en&ei=AT5-TsSKAoGWtwe457Vw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&sqi=2&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=dewey&f=false Robert Lake On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Michael Glassman wrote: > > It is instead an ensemble production I guess, with a whole lot of > interesting players and one extraordinary coincidence (the degree to which > Freire's ideas in Pedagogy of the Oppressed mirror some of the original > ideas behind action research even though really their only common > denominator are basic ties to Dewey). > > ========= > > I would be interested in seeing basic ties to Dewey in Freire's work, but I > am not aware of any. Freire seems most influenced by Hegel, and then by > Sartre and other Europeans, as well as Fanon and other anti-colonial > Africans. The closest to an American influence that I can recall are Fromm > and Marcuse, who are both from the German Frankfurt School. > > Of courese, begninning around 1971, Freire was in dialogue with Americans > like Giroux and Aronowitz; but even then, they seem to be channeling > European ctitical theory, more than American pragmatism. > ______________________________**____________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/**listinfo/xmca<http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca> > -- *Robert Lake Ed.D. *Assistant Professor Social Foundations of Education Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading Georgia Southern University P. O. Box 8144 Phone: (912) 478-5125 Fax: (912) 478-5382 Statesboro, GA 30460 *Democracy must be born anew in every generation, and education is its midwife.* *-*John Dewey. __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca