My whole life I have had periods where I felt like the person on the other end of the phone line in old Charlie Brown Cartoons, "Blah, Bla, blah, bLah, bla, BLAHHH!" Talking just to hear myself talk, understood by no one. So, I am listening...practicing listening. This time listening to advice from SIFAT and re-studying Paulo Freire.
This explains why. Taken from a beautiful website: RAGE AND HOPE. Read the excerpt below, and if you like it, follow the link to learn more.
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Paulo Freire felt that for the learner to move from object to Subject, he or she needed to be involved in dialogical action with the teacher. Dialogic action has two basic dimensions, reflection and action.
Action + Reflection = word = work = praxis
Action without Reflection = activism (acting without thinking)
Reflection without Action = verbalism = "blah" (Freire, 1998b, p.68)
Verbalism is an empty word, word without action, and transformation cannot happen with action. Transformation is also impossible with activism, because without reflection, there can be no commitment to transformation, it is empty action. With action and reflection you get praxis, which enables transformation to take place.
Dialogue cannot exist without humility. You cannot dialogue if you place yourself above another, seeing yourself as the owner of truth.
Dialogue requires faith in humanity. "Faith is an a priori requirement for dialogue. Founding itself upon love, humility and faith, dialogue becomes a horizontal relationship of which mutual trust between the dialoguers is the logical consequence"(p.71).
Dialogue requires hope in order to exist. "Hopelessness is a form of silence, of denying the world and fleeing from it"(p.72).
"Dialogue cannot exist unless the dialoguers engage in critical thinking"(p.73).
"Without dialogue there is no communication, and without communication, there can be no true education"(p.73).
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