Paulo Freire and Global Education | Freire Institute

Paulo Freire’s philosophy of education has had a profound impact on people throughout the world working for social change. His work has been applied not only to formal educational settings but to many diverse social movements.

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Price: GBP 250.00

Paulo Freire and Global Education

Connecting global issues with local experience

Reimagining education as  liberation

Global issues can easily appear distant, abstract, and overwhelming. Climate change, migration, inequality, conflict, global trade, food systems, human rights, technological change, and international development are often presented through statistics, institutions, and events far removed from people’s everyday lives. Yet these global realities are also present within local communities, workplaces, schools, patterns of consumption, cultural identities, public services, environments, and relationships. Drawing upon Paulo Freire’s philosophy and pedagogy, this participatory workshop explores Global Education as a process of connecting people’s lived experience with wider social realities ....

What becomes visible when we begin with the world we know locally and trace its connections to the wider global systems of which we are already a part?

The workshop encourages participants to make connections across different dimensions of social life (cultural, political, social, economic, environmental, and religious) rather than treating global issues as separate topics. A local concern about food, housing, employment, migration, energy, education, or community relations can become a generative theme through which participants investigate supply chains, economic structures, environmental consequences, histories, political decisions, cultural narratives, and international relationships. Global Education is therefore approached not as the transmission of information about ‘the world out there’, but as a process through which people...

What you learn

Analyse relationships between local experiences and wider national and global processes across relevant cultural, political, social, economic, environmental, historical and ethical dimensions.
Analyse and critically compare explanations of a selected global issue, identifying assumptions, relationships of power, institutional and historical influences, competing perspectives and connections across different scales.
Apply Freirean concepts to compare and evaluate information-centred and dialogical, problem-posing approaches to Global Education and their implications for participation, inquiry and critical consciousness.
Develop and justify a contextually grounded educational or community-learning activity that connects local experience, global inquiry and alternative possibilities with purposeful action and structured reflection.

Availability

For organizations: This workshop is available in virtual, in-person, or hybrid formats to meet diverse organizational needs and preferences. We can tailor the focus to your specific institutional context.
For individuals: We will run occasional virtual workshops, and you are encouraged to join the notification list to be informed of upcoming dates.

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Duration

You will continue to be registered in the course area for 3 months following the workshop.

Course Certificate

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

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