![]() ![]() These Culture Circles that began with Sugar Cane workers, catalyzed thousands more. In 1962, Paulo Freire created culture circles in Northeastern Brazil to support 300 suger-cane workers to teach each other how to read the word and their world in 45 days, which enabled them to register to vote. Not just the title of a book by Paulo Freire, a Pedagogy of the Oppressed is an approach to education and organizing to transform oppressive structures and create a more equitable, caring and beautiful world through action and reflection that is co-created with those who have been marginalized and dehumanized. ![]() ![]() Because so much of Practicing Freedom's work is inspired by it, I thought I repost the mini-chapter here: I'd love feedback! I originally wrote this for the forthcoming book, Beautiful Trouble. ![]()
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