Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Reflexive and Reflective Thinking

Since I've started my graduate program: International Training and Education you may find that the subject matter of my postings will begin to revolve around these themes.

Reflexive and Reflective thinking was a type of pedagogy developed by Paul Freire to explain participatory learning - a type of learning that opens the possibility of transforming the students' powers of thought.

Freire says "As conscious human beings, we can discover how we are conditioned by the dominant ideology. We can gain distance on our moment of existence...We can struggle to become free precisely because we can know we are not free. That is why we can think of transformation." Human beings are capable of overcoming limits if they can openly examine them.

Start examining, thinking, and processing what is it you are participating in.

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