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Pedagogija Dečaka - Rečnik tehnologije kao fenomenologija ciklusa bez istorije
Pedagogy of Boys - Dictionary of Technology as Phenomenology of Cycles Without a History

Author(s): Tamara M. Stojanović Đorđević
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Dictionary of Technology; Paulo Freire; Claude Levi-Strauss; the revolutionary pedagogy; history; kids; dehumanization; mirror

Summary/Abstract: The author examines the pedagogical interpretation and contribution of the Dictionary of Technology (published in 1981) andcritical revolutionary pedagogy of Paulo Freire and his followers, Henry Giroux and Peter McLaren. A comparative reflection on the Dictionary of Technology and Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire most renowned book, is possible due to the clear effort of both works directed against the dehumanization and conversion of the pedagogical process in totechnology. Freire educational processsees as a simulacrum of the banking system while the Dictionary of Technology very closely, but more generally sees it as the predominance of illusion, no matter who is oppressed by whom. The illusion would exist even in a world without a relation ship of dominance, because the dismissal of oppression will not liberate us from the history.

  • Issue Year: 26/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 139-155
  • Page Count: 17