The Safety of Theory: Working with Educators in a Squatter Community

Auteurs-es

  • Crain Soudien University of Cape Town
  • Wendy Colyn University of Cape Town

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v26i3.52289

Résumé

Based on the experience of recent educational work in a squatter community on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, we examine the difficulties and problems encountered in trying to develop a critical pedagogy amongst teachers. We show how sedimented the dominant class's ideology is within the consciousness of oppressed communities and hence how inadequately the process of developing a critical pedagogy is understood. We argue that the empowerment of oppressed teachers is a complex process and that we need to take seriously the specific circumstances which confront these teachers.

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2018-05-16

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