Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. "Language is never neutral."
Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire's education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.
Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'Γ©tat, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.
Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed".
In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the "banking method" of education, wherein a teacher "deposits" knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or "bank". Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.
"Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination."
Paulo Freire
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Just played a little bit of a early access game called Jump Space, any of y'all looking for a co-op space game might find it fun. It's 1-4 player co-op where you have a hangar as a base in between missions, where you select stuff on a galactic map kinda like Helldivers, different missions like salvage runs or raiding cargo ships or whatnot.
Then you all get into a ship and take off, one person flying while the rest can run around or man various stations. The pilot can see your silhouettes as you run around inside the ship, which is kinda cool. The others will have various tasks like putting out fires, recharging ablative shielding with craftable armor kits, trying to pry off explosive mines if they latch on to the ship, stuff like that.
There's a lot of on-foot sections where you basically eject from your ship through a tube (or use an air lock, but like, why not just use the tube dawg) and then fly over to a platform or asteroid or something and fight robots and collect materials and what-not. It seems like there's kind of a loot system since you'll find crates with guns and such that I assume have different qualities since Mk1 implies the presence of a Mk2 etc
The plot is basically galactic humanity is on the losing end of a Butlerian Jihad where a computer virus corrupted all machinery and they've gotten very close to wiping out all human life. But then you crash on an asteroid and find an old busted up ship with an AI helmsman core inside of it that claims to be uncorrupted and, through dialogue, implies itself to be extremely ancient (it ponders whether humanity's technological regression has made them vulnerable to this virus, which it also implies it's seen before)
idk I've only done one mission loop with my partner and now she's gotta go do a thing but aside from MAKING ME FUCKING DIZZY it seems like a fun game some of y'all might like