FINAL REMINDER: Prof. Lewis Gordon on emancipatory education
The Paulo Freire project of the Centre for Adult Education is delighted to announce that Prof. Lewis Gordon will be presenting a seminar on Pietermaritzburg campus on Tuesday, 21st October.
Lewis Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums and piano), and Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies with affiliation in El Instituto and the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Gordon has written extensively on race and racism, postcolonial phenomenology, Africana and black existentialism, and on the works and thought of Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois. He is currently Nelson Mandela Distinguished Visiting Professor (for 2014 and 2015) at the University of Rhodes.
For more information on Gordon, visit http://www.lewisrgordon.com/biography/
TOPIC: "Africana Critical Pedagogy" - The focus of this seminar will be the Africana philosophical influences on Paulo Freire's thought and also critiques raised from Africana existential phenomenological approaches and some other pedagogical considerations to consider for practices of emancipatory education.
DATE: 21 October
VENUE: Room 43, Education Building, Pietermaritzburg campus
TIME: 2.30p.m.
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21 October 2014
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