Education as (de)humanization. A possibility for a creative dialogue between the social philosophies of Paulo Freire and Zygmunt Bauman

Julija Tuleikytė; Michael Hviid Jacobsen

doi:10.25167/sk.5250

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No 11 (2022)

Education as (de)humanization. A possibility for a creative dialogue between the social philosophies of Paulo Freire and Zygmunt Bauman

Julija Tuleikytė , Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Studia Krytyczne/Critical Studies

Sekce: Temat numeru

https://doi.org/10.25167/sk.5250

Abstrakt

This article examines the works of two social critics – Paulo Freire and Zygmunt Bauman – with regard to the idea of education as a cause of dehumanization and/or humanization. The key terms and ideas the authors use in their critique of dehumanization
within social relations are compared: Freire’s concept of banking model of pedagogy is
analysed in contrast to Bauman’s philosopheme of adiaphorization. With both similar and
very different understandings of what it means to be human, the two authors search for
alternatives to the status quo and to power relations of human subjects being treated as
objects – be it, in Freire’s case, the oppressed in the 20th century Brazil or, in Bauman’s
case, the Holocaust victims in the 20th century and persons in the contemporary 21st century consumer society. The article aims at founding the thesis that both authors promote humanization, although in different ways, and that Bauman’s humanization through
metaphors is in times of liquid modernity a contemporary form of Freire’s modern critical
pedagogy. The article also aims to generally present Bauman’s conception of education as
the author so far has been much less introduced in educational sciences than Freire is,
and a comparison of their education philosophies reveals how modern and postmodern
principles of the two theories and their practical implications complement one another
and engage in a possibility for a creative dialogue.

Nejaktuálnější články stejného autora (stejných autorů)

Michael Hviid Jacobsen , From ‘Forbidden Death’ to ‘Spectacular Death’ – on the transformation of death in the West (and maybe elsewhere) , Studia Krytyczne/Critical Studies: No 12 (2023)

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Tuleikytė, J., & Jacobsen, M. H. (2023). Education as (de)humanization. A possibility for a creative dialogue between the social philosophies of Paulo Freire and Zygmunt Bauman. Studia Krytyczne/Critical Studies, (11), 11–39. https://doi.org/10.25167/sk.5250

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