Culture, Art and Ideology

Cultural action for freedom

Explore the forces that shape our cultural environment – values, ideologies, and beliefs – and learn how to this knowledge can help us engage in cultural action

Freire's notion of cultural action forms the basis for this course on how to understand and examine the cultural environment around us, including everyday values, ideologies and beliefs.

This is a course on understanding how social movements and faith communities can act as agents of change, and the forces blocking them; the collective myths and underlying conflicts in the environment or groups with which we work; and tools for the analysis of change - how interventions can reinforce or transform the social reality.

Topics

Paulo Freire’s notion of cultural action
The concept of conscientization in Freire’s work
Key thinkers in culture, ideology and belief
Social conformity and nonconformity
The state and hegemony
Issues around class, identity, race and gender
Faith-based movements
Secularization and fundamentalism
The idea of a global ethic and its possibilities

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Duration

You will be registered for 12 months from the start of the course. The minimum time necessary to complete the course is 3 months.

Course Delivery

Course materials such as videos, readings and tasks will be released over the period of your enrollment. Live online seminars are not part of the course content but may be made available as a bonus.

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You will receive a certificate upon successful completion of the course.

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