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Praxis Spring/Summer 2010: Volume 3, Issue 1 Because I have witnessed firsthand how your work has empowered teachers, I remain hopeful that as educators we can transform conditions in urban schools. Over the last five years, I have worked with teachers on developing and writing a Master’s inquiry project. The project requires teachers to develop a question based on their own curiosity, their students’ learning, or their teaching practice. As a framework to guide the inquiry process, I use three of your central ideas: helping teachers read their students as if they were texts, linking practice and theory, and grounding their work in love. Teachers learn to systemically and intentionally examine their work through an ethnographic lens. I ask them to keep a journal and record their observations of their students and reflections about practice. In class we use the journals to develop critical reflection and to link practice with theory. Praxis becomes a central component of the inquiry process as teachers seek to leverage positive change in the classroom, school and community. If you were still alive and had an opportunity to meet the inspirational teachers I have had the privilege to work with, you would see that these are educators who ground their work in love, as they challenge and demand the best from their students. They unrelentingly work to heal the deep psychological and spiritual wounds our educational system has inflicted upon working class students and despite being overworked and underpaid, these young teachers continue dreaming of a utopian future. Thank you Paulo for all your help and support. Your work has sustained and nurtured me over these years. In solidarity, Eduardo Lopez 14
Praxis Spring/Summer 2010: Volume 3, Issue 1 3 EL MIEDO A EDUCAR EN LA LIBERTAD María Guadalupe Cardiel Cháidez Decir que los hombres son personas y como personas son libres y no hacer nada para lograr concretamente que esta afirmación sea objetiva, es una farsa. Paulo Freire La década de los años ochenta puso en mis manos las obras de dos autores que impactaron mi vida: Erich Fromm y Paulo Freire. Ambos autores amarraban una cuerda que cada uno sostenía en su extremo defendiendo: ora el amor a la vida, ora la libertad y el diálogo. Al empezar a leerlos e indagar sobre sus propuestas hallé que tenían una marcada influencia por la fenomenología-existencial y el marxismo. Además, Fromm había bebido de las aguas del psicoanálisis de Freud y Freire del personalismo de Mounier. Estas fuentes obligaban a una relectura del mundo y la interpretación original de estos autores, pues su fuente resultaba sumamente rica. Es tiempo de abandonar a Fromm y lanzarme con Paulo Freire. Paulo Freire: Un Panorama El 19 de septiembre de 1921, en medio de la «tristeza y la aflicción» llegó Pablinho a un pueblo llamado Recife en la provincia de Pernambuco. Era un lunes gris que tenía a su familia atrapada pues su padre estaba muy grave y tal vez, pronto moriría dejando al pequeño, huérfano, muy tempranamente. Sin embargo «el buen Jesús», como escribió su madre, lo liberó de ese infortunio y su padre se curó. Esa misma mujer, lo introdujo al 15
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