This document provides an introduction to critical theory and discusses several theorists within this framework. It outlines the goals of understanding critical theory and examining the relationships between critical theorists and ideas of community. Key theorists discussed include Paulo Freire, Jürgen Habermas, and thinkers from the Frankfurt School such as Adorno, Fromm, Horkheimer and Marcuse. Paulo Freire's educational philosophy and concept of conscientização (critical consciousness) are explained as an example of critical theory. The document also discusses using critical theory to deconstruct power dimensions within social relations and promote humanizing liberation processes.

1. Unit 7 Introduction to criticaltheory Criticaltheory, society, community and commitment

2. Goal of these lectures Understanding of criticaltheory The relationshipbetweencriticaltheory and communitythinkers

3. Criticaltheory and PauloFreire Criticaltheory and Kwame Appiah Criticaltheory and Bell Hooks, PatriciaHill-Collins and MarthaNussbaum Postmodernism and Giddens Gender and postmodernism

4. Critical theory

5. The history of criticaltheory The political and ideologicaldimension Crititicaltheory and the frankfurter school:Adorno, Fromm, Horkheimer, Marcuse

6. Frankfurter Schule

7. Crititicaltheory and the frankfurter school:Adorno, Fromm, Horkheimer, Marcuse

8. Jürgen Habermas

9. Habermas and communicativeaction Habermas and criticaltheory

10. Critical theory and epistomology Critical theory and methodology Critical theory and hermeneutics

11. Paulo Freire (1921-1971)

12. PauloFreirefrom a criticaltheoreticalperspective Who is PauloFreire?

13. Whyusehiseducationalphilosophy as anexampleforcriticaltheory

14. Cycle of action-learning (Freire, 1970)

15. The mainconcepts of histransformationalpedagogy Dialogue, awarenessraising (conscientização)

16. Pedagogy of the oppressed; a philosophical and revolutionarypedagogicalproposal.

17. Criticaltheory, Freire and Galeano

18. WhychooseforFreire and Galeano? LatinAmerica: Isabel Allende, Garcia Marquez and PabloNeruda

19. Contextualsimilarities? FrantzFanon, Frank Martinus Arion, V.S. Naipaul, stuart Hall and or Edward Said. The culture of Silence, the culture of shame; out of the culture of domination.

20. Contextualdifferences? Freire is a educationalphilospoher and Galeano is a writer, whorewrites the history of LatinAmerica.

21. Freire and Aruba

22. Dialoque as an instrument to raise consciousness=> Selfawareness, namingyour own reality, the politics and therefore the interest of eductionof words of philosophy Freires legacy in Aruba (examples; innovation in Aruban elementary education, papiamento as an instruction language

23. Consciouness, critical attitude, vision of a liberatedhumanity. …ongoingforms of critique and a struggleagainstobjectiveforces of oppression Understanding and deconstructing power dimensionswithinsocial relations Humanizingliberationprocesses Transforming social and political realities