Critique Pedagogy Of Praxis

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Gadotti's book is concerned with the conception and method of dialectics. Hegel's dialectics take a step down to Marx and Engel's dialectics.

"Hegel's dialectics were limited to the world of spirit, Gadotti espouses, while Marx inverts this, and explains the evolution of the material, of nature, and of mankind itself. Marx's dialectics is not merely a method to arrive at the truth. It is a conception of man, society, and the relationship between man and the world. "

Gadotti goes on to cite Marx and Engels with principals that show the contradiction in social history that capture the connection of the dialectic method, and the relationship between the exploited class and the exploiting class. The chapter continues a dialogue of Marxist views and ends with the statement," the political and economic failure of a concrete fulfillment of Marxist thought doesn't invalidate its anthropological perspective for the construction of a society of solidarity."
Chapter two is a continued ...

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of institutional pedagogy is to reach social self-management. Quoting Mendel and Vogt, Gadotti extols their socialist and antiauthoritarian objectives of the pedagogical revolution in the socialist school. The chapter continues with varying concepts on self-management and its movement from theory to practice. Gadotti recounts an experimental program at the University of Geneva. He summarizes the experience and concludes," we believe that self-management is a fundamental part of the socialist project... this self-management cannot be confused with a renouncing of power...education has always had this objective: to train individuals...they can assume themselves, govern themselves and ...

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