Week 12, April 5 - 11

     Freire begins his argument by focusing, in general, on what is necessary in the preparation of a teacher.  I interpret some his key terms and ideas seem to be: progression (beyond the “unfinishedness of the human person” (p. 21)), the inevitability of impartiality (p. 22), and the indispensability of ethics and ethics training (p. 23 - 27).  I noticed (or imagined) a tie-in with Davis, namely Freire’s description of ethics as, “affronted by racial, sexual, and class discrimination” (p. 24).  How do you make sense of Freire’s use of the term “presence”; is Freire’s presence Brunner’s “self”(see Brunner, pp. 15-16)?  Does anything else grab your attention from chapter one?

WEEK 10