How might culture be impacted by what you share, like Paul? Paul actually started his
day with like minded people: Jews & God fearing Greeks. But he stepped out from there
and went to the marketplace where he interacted with "those who happened to be
there" (epicureans, stoics, skeptics, and sophists) in the stoa (painted porch = place for
people to hang out and share their ideas). How do you engage people in meaningful
ways? How do you do that in a diverse society and make your message so winsome as
Paul did on the Areopagus that you win some people to your way of thinking? Think
about how you engage culture as a winsome Christian? What are your marketplaces?
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(theory that leans more toward transformation) Paulo Freire, a social activist, educator,
and philosopher. Freire contributed a philosophy of education which blended classical
approaches stemming from Plato and modern Marxist, post-Marxist, and anti-colonialist
thinkers. His Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) can be read as an extension of, or reply
to, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961), which emphasized the need to
provide native populations with an education which was simultaneously new and
modern, rather than traditional, and anti-colonial - not simply an extension of the
colonizing culture. Freire considered the contemporaneous Chinese Cultural Revolution
an exemplar of his notion of cultural action and praised Mao Zedong's innovations to
Marxist theory and praxis. These carried the baton from Friere: Peter McLaren, Henry
Giroux, Bell Hooks (Gloria Watkins) by being social activists. They're different from the
original progressives, the resconstructionists, in that they've brought in more of the
Marxist element (this idea that the main form of education is to identify oppression and
fight it; to stand against it in solidarity with those who are oppressed either by poverty or
by being marginalized; they believe that educators need to take a stand in that).
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critical pedagogy
(philosophical term) Pantheism is the belief that reality is identical with divinity, or that all-
things compose an all-encompassing, immanent god.
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, pantheism
(philosophies/theories) a philosophical tradition that considers words and thought as
tools and instruments for prediction, problem solving, and action, and rejects the idea
that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality.
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pragmatism
(philosophical term) belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator
who does not intervene in the universe. The term is used chiefly of an intellectual
movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the
basis of reason but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind.
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deism
(ancient Greek philosophy) would listen to the polar opposites of the stoics and the
epicureans and they believe you could not arrive at truth. You could not make any truth
claims. "Every saying has its corresponding opposite" "Not more one thing than the
other" "we determine nothing." They thought that you really could not and should not
determine anything. They taught that we should suspend judgement, suspend belief, and
refrain from making any truth claims because the truth really could not be known
day with like minded people: Jews & God fearing Greeks. But he stepped out from there
and went to the marketplace where he interacted with "those who happened to be
there" (epicureans, stoics, skeptics, and sophists) in the stoa (painted porch = place for
people to hang out and share their ideas). How do you engage people in meaningful
ways? How do you do that in a diverse society and make your message so winsome as
Paul did on the Areopagus that you win some people to your way of thinking? Think
about how you engage culture as a winsome Christian? What are your marketplaces?
,Give this one a try later!
Acts 17
(theory that leans more toward transformation) Paulo Freire, a social activist, educator,
and philosopher. Freire contributed a philosophy of education which blended classical
approaches stemming from Plato and modern Marxist, post-Marxist, and anti-colonialist
thinkers. His Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) can be read as an extension of, or reply
to, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961), which emphasized the need to
provide native populations with an education which was simultaneously new and
modern, rather than traditional, and anti-colonial - not simply an extension of the
colonizing culture. Freire considered the contemporaneous Chinese Cultural Revolution
an exemplar of his notion of cultural action and praised Mao Zedong's innovations to
Marxist theory and praxis. These carried the baton from Friere: Peter McLaren, Henry
Giroux, Bell Hooks (Gloria Watkins) by being social activists. They're different from the
original progressives, the resconstructionists, in that they've brought in more of the
Marxist element (this idea that the main form of education is to identify oppression and
fight it; to stand against it in solidarity with those who are oppressed either by poverty or
by being marginalized; they believe that educators need to take a stand in that).
Give this one a try later!
critical pedagogy
(philosophical term) Pantheism is the belief that reality is identical with divinity, or that all-
things compose an all-encompassing, immanent god.
Give this one a try later!
, pantheism
(philosophies/theories) a philosophical tradition that considers words and thought as
tools and instruments for prediction, problem solving, and action, and rejects the idea
that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality.
Give this one a try later!
pragmatism
(philosophical term) belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator
who does not intervene in the universe. The term is used chiefly of an intellectual
movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the
basis of reason but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind.
Give this one a try later!
deism
(ancient Greek philosophy) would listen to the polar opposites of the stoics and the
epicureans and they believe you could not arrive at truth. You could not make any truth
claims. "Every saying has its corresponding opposite" "Not more one thing than the
other" "we determine nothing." They thought that you really could not and should not
determine anything. They taught that we should suspend judgement, suspend belief, and
refrain from making any truth claims because the truth really could not be known
