Liberating
Education
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Liberating
education defined:
Liberating education differs from loving care and joyful
experiences in that
liberating education is based largely with future outcomes in mind. Education
should be
conducted in ways that make it possible for the learner to achieve further
education. Liberating education makes it possible for the learner to act with
intentionality and as a participant in larger social structures, or as an agent
of liberation. Liberating education is a political act
aimed at furthering democratic values.
Liberating
education provides a model for how to educate
children in ways that support democratic values and that help children participate
meaningfully in society.
Liberating
education focuses on developing internal controls, or self-discipline,
and of developing habits of mind and a knowlege base
that expand one's opportunities for learning
and growth. Liberating education requires that children be treated as free
agents, or as participants in their own learning. But it also provides
children and educators with appropriate roles. It recognizes
that the role of the
teacher is different from that of the student.
Liberating
education and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights:
- Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience
and religion. (article
18)
- Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion
and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference
and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through
any media and regardless of frontiers. (article
19)
- Everyone has the right to take part in the
government of his country. (article
21)
- Education shall promote understanding, tolerance
and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups,
and shall further
the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance
of peace. (article
26)
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