Education for Liberation
Description: Education for Liberation is "concerned, as a social praxis, with helping to free human beings from the oppression which strangles them in their objective reality." Pg. 528
*Question: Do religious people today think their religious education should free them from anything?
*This question is purposely vague to generate discussion. :)
Description: Those committed to the liberation of dominated classes realize that "it is not sufficient to give lip service to the idea that people are human beings if nothing is done objectively to help them experience what it means to be persons."
Question: Have you ever heard the phrase, "We don't talk politics or religion at the dinner table." Who do you think that quirk benefits?
Question: According to Paulo Freire, the church’s political alignment inevitably shapes this key area, influencing its goals, methods, and even its theological education
Question #2: This term describes how the Latin American church offers comfort to the oppressed but ultimately distracts them from confronting the real causes of their suffering.
Answer: What is education?
Answer #2: What is the “haven of the masses”?
Description: While these churches claim to promote “humanism” and “liberating education,” Paulo Freire criticizes them for focusing on technical reforms like audiovisual tools and dynamic classes instead of addressing class oppression.
Question: What are modernizing churches?
Description: The good one!
Description #2: This type of church rejects neutrality, individualism, and superficial reform, committing instead to radical social change and solidarity with the oppressed.
Question: How will you remember to be prophetic after this class?
Question #2: What is the prophetic church?