Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Hope: Freire’s Legacy in his Centennial Year

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2021 is the year of Paulo Freire’s 100th birthday. It is also a year in which we recognize raging populist and White supremacist movements, continually widening income inequality across the global, ongoing war, climate destruction, and a global pandemic that has taken the lives of millions and affected the lives of nearly everyone in the world. Through the horrors we have witnessed, we have also seen global uprisings against racism, movement towards equal rights for LGBT+ individuals, and backlash against corporate greed. At this moment, we cannot help but wonder, how does Paulo Freire’s philosophy contribute to our praxes in the contemporary moment, and to what new places ought we bring critical pedagogy now? The researchers on this panel will discuss how their work across diverse contexts is informed by and represents Freirean praxes of resistance, resilience, and hope. Panelists will discuss: 1) the Gezi resistance in Turkey, illustrating how youth activists’ practices of resistance facilitated community solidarity and renewed their capacity for hope; 2) critical praxis and dreams of liberation in a juvenile detention center in the United States; 3) the 55-year journey of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor, an educator-activist whose undertold contributions to the Chicano Movement are informed by Freirean notions of love, education, and action; 4) the Paulo Freire SIG Graduate Student Council’s praxes of “femtoring” (dialogic mentoring) as a path toward organizing critical spaces of collaboration across diverse stakeholders in academia; and 5) Black phenomenology, critical pedagogy, and praxes of resistance and hope

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Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Hope: Freire’s Legacy in his Centennial Year

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2021 is the year of Paulo Freire’s 100th birthday. It is also a year in which we recognize raging populist and White supremacist movements, continually widening income inequality across the global, ongoing war, climate destruction, and a global pandemic that has taken the lives of millions and affected the lives of nearly everyone in the world. Through the horrors we have witnessed, we have also seen global uprisings against racism, movement towards equal rights for LGBT+ individuals, and backlash against corporate greed. At this moment, we cannot help but wonder, how does Paulo Freire’s philosophy contribute to our praxes in the contemporary moment, and to what new places ought we bring critical pedagogy now? The researchers on this panel will discuss how their work across diverse contexts is informed by and represents Freirean praxes of resistance, resilience, and hope. Panelists will discuss: 1) the Gezi resistance in Turkey, illustrating how youth activists’ practices of resistance facilitated community solidarity and renewed their capacity for hope; 2) critical praxis and dreams of liberation in a juvenile detention center in the United States; 3) the 55-year journey of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor, an educator-activist whose undertold contributions to the Chicano Movement are informed by Freirean notions of love, education, and action; 4) the Paulo Freire SIG Graduate Student Council’s praxes of “femtoring” (dialogic mentoring) as a path toward organizing critical spaces of collaboration across diverse stakeholders in academia; and 5) Black phenomenology, critical pedagogy, and praxes of resistance and hope