Paulo Freire

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Exiling Intellectuals: From HCU to JNU

by rti_adminon January 13, 2017March 20, 20230

N Sukumar & Shailaja Menon In 1962, Paulo Freire created culture circles in Northeastern Brazil to support 300 sugarcane workers to teach each other how to read the word and their world in 45 days, which enabled them to register to vote. These Culture Circles that began with Sugar Cane workers, catalyzed thousands more. Each …

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Annotations on the Indian shore: Cultural Pedagogy of the Writings of Oppressors and its Faultlines

by rti_adminon April 18, 2014March 20, 20230

Yogesh Maitreya Alongside social and economic capital, cultural capital is one important source from which power flows in any society. Culture of any country is always that which is perceived as culture by the dominant (oppressor) groups, neglecting that of the oppressed. Writing, regardless of genre, is often used as one of the major …