Hi Tony, I have a student who has gone pretty deeply into Freire. It is her idea that Freire was very careful about who he suggested as his influence because he did not want it to create his theory as a European or Americanized theory. So I think even if the people you mention did have an impact on Freire, which I think I would be hesitant to agree with, I think Freire might not readily agree with it anyway. The student, she is from Turkey, does argue with me that Marx had a strong influence, and maybe some of Hegel that way. And this would make sense because Marx was playing such an important role in fighting back against marginalization and oppression in that part of the world at the time (I'm going to go waaaaayy out on a limb and suggest that Che may have had an influence here. I believe though Freire does acknowledge his debt to Dewey early in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. But I will say this, the Freire's approach to adult education is very, very much similar to what Edward Lindeman was writing about adult education. And Lindeman was completely indebted to Dewey. (And by the way a major influence on Action Research which is where I saw the tie). I don't know if this is coincidence, or there are very strong ties to Dewey, but I think you can make the argument there are some ties. Michael ________________________________ From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Tony Whitson Sent: Sat 9/24/2011 4:05 PM To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity Subject: Freire & Dewey RE: [xmca] ISCAR (review) On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Michael Glassman wrote: It is instead an ensemble production I guess, with a whole lot of interesting players and one extraordinary coincidence (the degree to which Freire's ideas in Pedagogy of the Oppressed mirror some of the original ideas behind action research even though really their only common denominator are basic ties to Dewey). ========= I would be interested in seeing basic ties to Dewey in Freire's work, but I am not aware of any. Freire seems most influenced by Hegel, and then by Sartre and other Europeans, as well as Fanon and other anti-colonial Africans. The closest to an American influence that I can recall are Fromm and Marcuse, who are both from the German Frankfurt School. Of courese, begninning around 1971, Freire was in dialogue with Americans like Giroux and Aronowitz; but even then, they seem to be channeling European ctitical theory, more than American pragmatism. __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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