Ethical CommunicationModule 4: Liberation

Dr Megan Pooremeg@meganpoore.com

Overview• Ontological vocation• Awareness• Critical consciousness • Historicity• Dialogical communication

Paolo Freire

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970)

Karl Mannheim

Diagnosis of Our Time (1943)

Oscar Freire

PART IONTOLOGICAL VOCATION

PART IIAWARENESS

Karl Mannheim

Diagnosis of Our Time (1943)

PART IIICRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

PART IVHISTORICITY

|A deepened consciousness of their situation leads people to apprehend that

situation as an historical reality susceptible of transformation.

— Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ch 2

PART VDIALOGICAL COMMUNICATION

|Dialogue is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the

world— Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ch 3

|Here, no one teaches another, nor is anyone self-taught. People teach each other,

mediated by the world ...— Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ch 2

Wrapping up

|To bear the burden of a greater amount of consciousness is only possible if many other

things ... are changed at the same time.— Karl Mannheim, Diagnosis of Our Time, II, iii

You.Will.Not.Be.Racist

How do you think others feel when you say that?

Let’s explore the social structures that underpin racism.

Let us unveil the stars.

How does racism perpetuate social inequality?

Thanks for coming!