Dr. Jason J. Campbell Bio:
Dr. Jason J. Campbell is the founder and Executive Director for the Institute for Genocide Awareness and Applied Research (IGAAR). He has written several books and publishes primarily in the field of genocide awareness and prevention. Dr. Campbell’s research interest include genocide studies and prevention, the problem of evil, state endorsed mass extermination and the theoretical understanding of exclusionary ideologies.
Check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/
Short summary of the presentation:
Critical pedagogy theory on ways we can better empower the oppressed through education, and in so doing bring an end to historical cycles of violence and vengeance.
Abstract for presentation:
Paulo Freire’s canonical text, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, has served global educators and social theorists since its publication. Freire’s insight into the relationship between the “banking concept” and needed transformations within pedagogical instruction, influenced a similar social transformation, wherein rather than oppressed minds, oppressed persons could gain the requisite understanding of their oppression. Within the classroom, the revolution of the mind is itself contingent on the recognition that rather than passively regurgitating instructional data, students co-create their educational outcomes. Similarly, rather than passively accepting oppressive social relations, oppressed people can begin the process of mental emancipation, which requires prima facie, one to forfeit the desire for vengeance. The cyclical process of generational violence is itself rooted in the desire for vengeance, wherein oppressed people, having emancipated themselves both from physical and mental oppression, and after having gained control of political power seek to enact a campaign of vengeance and tyranny against their former oppressors. Freire attempts to quell the desire for revenge by offering an in depth account of the futility in seeking such an end. The pedagogy of the oppressed is a pedagogy nested in vengeance, which –as time has demonstrated– propagates endless social conflict and invariably war.
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Lauren Stevens —laurenstevens@u.boisestate.edu or
Dave Mckerracher — davemckerracher@boisestate.edu
Chris Bower — chrisbower@u.boisestate.edu
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