This document discusses Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and community development approaches. It emphasizes problem-posing education that leads learners to understand their own experience and take social action. Codes like pictures, songs, and drama are used as educational tools. The document advocates building community participation and avoiding dependencies through empowering education. It also lists people who have inspired the author and values like hope, courage, solidarity, and living life unfolding like a river flows.

1. Welcome

2. Hillside 1990’s
 Unofficial Traveller encampment

3. Paulo Freire 1921 - 1997
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
(Marginalised)

4. Community Dev.
 “Today I learned to write my name and
now I know that I am I and you are you”.
 Problem Posing ed. (Generative Themes)
 Ed - To learn about what you
already know from experience
 Codes as tools for ed.
 Ed - Leads to Social Action
 Ed - not neutral

5. Fundamental is “WHY”
Some Examples of
Codes I have used
• Pictures
•Mime
•Drama/art
•Dynamics
•Songs
•Nature
•Public Drama
Helping people to read
their own reality ...

6. Broken ... Conflict.. violence
Road Sweeper

7. Keep a wider perspective

8. Food, Health, Green Adventure

9. Backyard Gardening –
Growing Cooking & Eating

10. Opportunity to go to Brazil 1

11. Cidade Olympica, Sao Luis, Ma.

12. The TEAM

14. Today !!!

15. Today !!!

16. Heritage in Schools


17. Empowerment ....
Avoid
dependencies
Education
Engage the person
Build Community
Participation

18. Community Dev. & Imagination

19. Community Dev. & Imagination

20. Community Dev. & Imagination

21. Community Dev. & Imagination

22. Communit Dev. & Celebration

23. Communit Dev. & Celebration

24. Communit Dev. & Celebration

25. People who have Inspired me ...

26. People who have lnspired ..
Hubert
Ze & Lourdes
John Garvin
Liam
Young woman
at Shannon
Airport
Mam/Dad
Gena
Paddy
Delaney
Donna Edina

27. Surround Yourself With Great
People

28. ... Humility

29. ... Hope/joy

30. Courage .. Trust your instinct

31. There is always another way

32. Solidarity
Sometimes you’ll
stand alone ..
Sometimes with a
crowd ...
Sometimes with
your partner or with
friends &
neighbours
I want a better and
fairer world for
everyone, not just for
me or my kids or even
my community or
country ... Social
Solidarity means to
stand with the most
vulnerable, the
voiceless, the
unrepresented ...

33. I would love to live like a river flows. ...
Carried by the surprise of its own unfolding
John o Donoghue

34. Welcome