by Jesse Hagopian | Nov 11, 2026 | Book Bans, brazil, Coup, critical thinking, Critical thinking skills, Democracy, Dictatorship, documentary, education, illiteracy, Inequality, Interview, João Goulart, Land Rights, literacy, Organizing, Paulo Freire, pedagogy of the oppressed, reconstruction, Slavery, Voting Rights
In 1963, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire helped launch a revolutionary literacy campaign in the impoverished northeastern Brazilian town of Angicos, where hundreds of rural workers learned to read and write in just 40 hours of instruction. Freire’s approach was about much more than literacy. Rather than emphasizing memorization and repetition, he developed “Culture Circles” where participants…
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by Henry A. Giroux | Jun 8, 2026 | AI, Canada, critical thinking, education, Higher Education, Militarism, Military Industrial Complex, Op-Ed, Trump Administration, War
What happens to higher education when institutions dedicated to critical thought increasingly align themselves with the logics of war, surveillance, and national security? Unless we mount an organized resistance, we may viscerally experience the answer to this question all too soon. We are already watching this transformation play out in both the U.S. and Canada as universities face growing…
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