Thursday, August 30, 2007

Terminology

Seeing that the Freire essay contains a heavy amount of specialized terminology, I've decided to list all the terms and allusions I think will need to be defined or explained. I've also been compiling a list of more general terms, like "rhetoric," for example.

General Use Terms
rhetoric, Aristotle's rhetoric
discourse
Socratic Method
cognition
metacognition

Freire
oppressed
oppressor

problem-posing
dichotomy
hypertrophied
solidarity
narrative
subject and object
empirical
existential
paternalistic
social action apparatus
euphemistic
pathology
humanism
liberal education
domestication
Heglian dialectic
ontology
praxis
doxa and logos


I think maybe I'll start the course with a general overview of the distinctions between Plato and Aristotle, a priori and a posteriori. For the Freire essay, I may also want to address briefly social and political dimensions of Brazil that may be informative.

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