Dear Colleagues,

 

This year we have an outstanding program. Please see the program below for the Paulo Freire SIG this year. We look forward to seeing and working with you in San Diego.  We hope you will enjoy all of our sessions. We invite you, in particular, to attend the Paulo Freire SIG business meeting which will also host the Paulo Freire Lecture Series we have every year. This year we have invited Sonia Nieto, Christine Sleeter and Sandy Grande. We will also host an entertainment session with refreshments and music with Jim Cantor.

 

Come join us on Wed., Apr. 15th from 6:15pm-8:15pm at the San Diego Convention Center, Room 24B.

We want to create community with you and get to know each other better.  There are plenty of opportunities to engage in new developments and activities which we hope you will consider joining and becoming a part of it. For example, we have a very special International Conference that the Paulo Freire SIG sponsors. You are invited to join us in Brazil. Please check the conference web page: www.academics.utep.edu/confele <http://www.academics.utep.edu/confele%0d>  which will take place on June 16-19, 2009 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

 

Also, we have a New Scholars Award Committee for which we are recruiting more members.  And we are developing a New Journal on Paulo Freire for which we are recruiting editorial board members. In addition, we have New Web page which is in essence an activist network for the practical application of Freirean Pedagogy and Social Justice.  The page is still under construction, but do take notes of this address:  www.freireanpedagogy.org <http://www.freireanpedagogy.org%0d> 

We need volunteers for various services within the SIG and we are always recruiting new members for the Paulo Freire SIG.  Please share this information with your colleagues and encourage them to join the Paulo Freire SIG.

 

We thank everyone who gave service this year, we really appreciate it and we look forward to seeing all of you in S. Diego.

Best,

Cesar Rossatto

Herman Garcia

 

See below our program:

 

 

NIETO, SLEETER and GRANDE

with MUSIC and FOOD 

 

Come and join us:

 

Wed., Apr. 15th 6:15pm-8:15pm

                SD Convention Center Rm. 24B

 

Paulo Freire SIG Business Meeting and Paulo Freire's Lecture: Sonia Nieto, Christine Sleeter, Sandy Grande, sponsored by Peter Lang Publishing

 

"Knowledge and Wisdom in Paulo Freire's Notions of Concientização:

Interactive feats in problem-posing approaches to teaching and learning"

By

Sonia Nieto, Christine Sleeter, and Sandy Grande

Discussant: Herman Garcia; Moderator: Suzanne Soohoo; Chair: Viviana Lopez

 

This interactive panel discussion will also engage the audience in a dialogue to explore how Paulo Freire's notion of problem-posing requires educators and students alike to think seriously and clearly about what they are pursuing in terms of teaching and learning.  The question that remains is, when do these interactive pedagogical feats occur? For Freire there was no teaching without learning and vice versa, this is where Freire's wisdom comes through.  Thus in this Freirean notion of problem-posing reflection, educators ought not to pursue fixed answers; rather they should focus on concepts and ideas by utilizing a dialogical process of timeless insight.  The process is dialogical.  However, attaching fixed answers to questions reduces the process to a time bound activity and limits the possibilities to specific ideas.  This specified process of teaching and learning is where both teachers and students lose their scholarly acumen. Scholars in this panel will bring about their personal and professional background to examine a variety of issues from a multicultural perspective. 

 

Problematizing Some Issues: 

(Some topics to start the dialogue)

 

Is racism a "thing" of the past since Obama was elected president?

How are Indigenous, Latinos, and other "minority" community's 
identity affected by whiteness? 

According to research on charter schools, the quality of 
education is questionable; why then, is the Obama Administration 
supporting them?

(Open to other topics from the audience)

 

Refreshments will be served with cash bar afterwards

 

Music by Jim Cantor 

 

The meeting will start with:

 

A Report from Paulo Freire SIG chair (15 minutes), Cesar A. Rossatto

Treasure report: Pierre Orelus (3 minutes)

New Program Chair: Viviana Lopez (5 minutes), What would be a good topic for next year Paulo Freire's Lecture session? Who should we invite?

Communications Chair: Richard Kahn, new web page development

Report on New Scholar Award Committee Chairs: Anaida Colon-Muniz and Mohammed Farouk  

 

One minute of silence for Joe Kincheloe, By Herman Garcia

 

 

Freirean Public School Teachers Speak Out: An Autoethnographic Account From the Trenches- Invited Session

                Tues., Apr. 14th 10:35am-12:05pm

                SD Convention Center, Rm. 23A

 

Discussant: Cesar A. Rossatto, University of Texas-El Paso 

Chair: Andreia de Souza Lisboa, Univ. Texas, Austin 

 

Invited Guest Panelist:

 

Practical Applications of Education-based Information and Communication Technology within a Critical Pedagogical Framework, Nicholas Handville, New York University

 

Freirean Math and Reading: Teachers' Defying a Constrictive School Structure."

Raymond Falcon and Georgina C. Perez, Ysleta School District, El Paso, TX

  

Critical Pedagogy of the XXI Century:  Bringing Paulo Freire to Second Life

Yolanda Gayol, Ed.D;   Fielding Graduate University; Santa Barbara, California

 

Confronting Assumptions and Taking Action: Empowering Urban Elementary Students through Critical Pedagogy,

Emilie Muller Camp, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

 

Empowering students to discover their full potential by inspiring them to achieve academically through Freirean philosophy

Jeni de Oliveira Neff, Paramount Unified School District, Los Angeles, CA

 

 

Critical Complexities: Colonialism, Gender Segregation and Ecological Rights in Academia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean- Roundtable

                Tues., Apr. 14th 3:05pm-3:45pm

                SD Convention Center, Ballroom 6A

 

A Freirian Approach to Social Education: Remaking Students and Their World Through a Critical Analysis of World's Fairs and Today's Social World

                Bradley J. Porfilio, Saint Louis University; Michael Watz, Buffalo State College

 

Critical Postcolonial Studies, Whiteness and Freirean Perspectives: A Study of the Present Conditions of Latin America and the Caribbean

                Pierre W. Orelus, New Mexico State University in Las Cruces; Cesar A. Rossatto,                University of Texas-El Paso

 

Freirean Reinvention of Adult Environmental Education by Analyzing His Philosophical Influences

                Greg William Misiaszek, University of California-Los Angeles

 

Global South Educators as Knowledge Producers: Exploring Popular Educator Research/Dissemination Practices in Northern Mexico

                Erika L. Mein, University of Texas-El Paso

 

Neocolonialism, Neocolonialism, Neocolonialism. Mozambique: Re-gendering Society and the Lethal Cult of Self Depreciation

                Joao Menelau Paraskeva, University of Minho, Portugal

 

Operation Get Fired: Counterstories of the Academic Repression of Radical Environmentalist and Animal Rights Advocate-Scholars

                Richard V. Kahn, University of North Dakota

 

Critical Literacies, Language and Sacred Spaces- Roundtable

                Tues., Apr. 14th 4:05pm-4:45pm

                SD Convention Center, Ballroom 6A

 

Language and Emotion: Schooling in the Urban Setting

                Ines Rosa Gomez, National University

 

Perspectives of Individuals Who Emerged from Public Schools with Limited Literacy

                Laurie Winder, University of Washington

 

Teaching and Learning in Iraq: Memorization versus Constructivism

                Methal Rafeeq Mohammed, Texas A&M University

 

Teaching Critical pedagogy Critically- Are We Having Fun Yet?

Suzanne SooHoo, Chapman University; Mara Sapon-Shevin, Syracuse University; Thomas C. Wilson, Chapman University           

 

The Challenges and Potential of Pre Service Teacher Praxis: A Freirian Model for Service-Learning

                Deborah Biss Keller, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis; Robert             L. Osgood

 

The Xicana Sacred Space: A Communal Circle for Educational Researchers

Lourdes Diaz Soto, Pennsylvania State University; Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon, University of Texas-Austin; Elizabeth Villarreal, University of Texas-Austin; Dolores Godinez, University of Texas-Austin; Emmet Campos, University of Texas-Austin; Maribel Garza, University of Texas-Austin; Chris Milk, University of Texas-Austin

 

Critical Literacies and Third-Space Tensions of the ELL Composition Classroom 

                Andrew Habana Hafner, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

 

Emancipatory Consciousness in Education and Communities- Paper Session

                Tues., Apr. 14th 4:05pm-5:35pm

                SD Convention Center, Rm. 23B

 

Chair: Anaida Colon-Muniz

Discussant: Rudolfo C. Chavez

 

Critical Pedagogy and Democratic Education: Possibilities for Cross-Pollination

                Donald Brent Edwards, University of Maryland-College Park

 

Preparing Teachers for Diversity Through Service-Learning in an Immigrant Community

                Gresilda A. Tilley-Lubbs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

 

Refocus on Paulo Freire's Works

                Herman S. Garcia, New Mexico State University

 

The Mainstream Media and Democratic Education: Two Ships Passing in the Night?

                Paul R. Carr, Youngstown State University

 

 

 

Imagining Creative and Critical Spaces Through Critical Pedagogies- Paper Session

                Wed., Apr. 15th 8:15am-9:45am

                SD Convention Center Rm. 23B

 

Chair: Jennifer Adair

Discussant: Viviana G. Lopez

 

Culture Circles: Critical Pedagogy in Action

                Mariana Souto-Manning, University of Georgia

 

Mirroring Freire through a Relational Art Practice

                Brenna Marie Johnson

 

Racism and the Looking Glass Self: Education and the Internalization of Low Expectations

                Richard Van Heertum, College of Staten Island-CUNY

 

"Empowerment Through Writing": A Freiran Model of Prison Education 

                Jodie Michelle Lawston, California State University San Marcos; Gabriel Jones,   UCLA

 

Chicharones to Chitlins: Dialogic Communities in Higher Education- Paper Session

                Wed., Apr. 15th 10:35am-12:05pm

                SD Convention Center Rm. 23A

 

Chair: Anna V. Wilson

Discussant: Glenda Moss

 

From Chicharones to Chittlins: Two Perspectives on Identity and Place in the Academy

                Stacie L. Tate, American University; Gloria Barragan, University of 

                Massachusetts-Amherst

 

From "I Am" to "We Could Be": Creating Dialogic Learning Communities in ESOL Teacher Education

                Greg McClure, University of Georgia; Erika Vasconcelos, University of Georgia

 

Key Interactions as Empowerment and a Sense of the Possible to Marginalized, Mexican-Descent Students

                Reynaldo Reyes III, University of Texas-El Paso

 

Transformative Learning for Social Justice: Processes of Change Through a Blended Graduate Seminar

Placida Gallegos, Fielding Graduate University; Steven Schapiro, Fielding Graduate University

 

 

 

Paulo Freire and Teacher Education: A Dialogue Between Brazil and the United States- Interactive Symposium

                Thurs., Apr. 16th 8:15am-9:45am

                SD Convention Center, Rm. 23C

 

Chair: Jeremy N. Price

Discussant: Elizabeth P. Quintero

 

Educating Language Teachers in the Paulo Freire Tradition

                Fernando Naiditch, Montclair State University

 

Paulo Freire and the Social Construction of Disability as Praxis

                Sheila L. Macrine, Montclair State University

 

Media and Schools as Sites of Antidialogical Cultural Action

                Joao Menelau Paraskeva, University of Minho, Portugal

 

On Paulo Freire and Teacher Motivation

                Bettina Steren dos Santos Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul

 

Paulo Freire and the University Classroom: Experiences, Knowledge, and Dilemmas of Liberation Education

                Ana Lucia Souza de Freitas, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do     Sul

 

Critical Theorists, Citizens and Neo-Griots: The Legacy of Paulo Freire Across Texts and Contexts- Symposium

                Thurs., Apr. 16th 2:15pm-3:45pm

                SD Convention Center, Rm. 23C

 

Chair: Kristen L. Buras

Discussant: Antonia Darder

 

Fighting with the Text: Critical Issues in the Development of Freireian Pedagogy 

                Wayne Au, California State University- Fullerton

 

The Citizen School Project: Implementing and Recreating Freirian Critical Education in Porto Alegre, Brazil

                Luis Armando Gandin, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

"We Have to Tell Our Story": Neo-Griots and the Legacy of Paulo Freire in the Other South

                Kristen L. Buras, Emory University

 

 

	Major Session, co-sponsored by Paulo Freire SIG:

 

Dr. Joe Kincheloe: Celebrating a Life <http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aera/aera09/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Session&session_id=74228&PHPSESSID=b8f03d91475fe7e9aee630ab3d7f35c1>  

 

 

Unit: AERA Sessions

 

Session type: Symposium

 

Time: Thu, Apr 16 - 4:05pm - 6:05pm <http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aera/aera09/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+View+Program+Load+Scheduled+Times&schedule_day=2009-04-16+16%3A05%3A00&highlight_box_id=62703&PHPSESSID=b8f03d91475fe7e9aee630ab3d7f35c1#box_tag> 

Place: San Diego Convention Center, Room 26A <http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aera/aera09/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Load+Room+Events&room_id=4953&PHPSESSID=b8f03d91475fe7e9aee630ab3d7f35c1> 

 

Audio Taping: No

 

César Augusto Rossatto, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Critical Pedagogy & Multiculturalism and Social Justice

The University of Texas at El Paso

College of Education, Room #812

El Paso, TX 79968-0574

(915) 747-5253

www.academics.utep.edu/confele

 


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