Alienation:
“Freire shows us how the concept of extension leads to actions which transform the peasant into a “thing”, an object of development projects which negate him as a being capable of transforming the world.”
Jacques Chonchol p.88, Education: The Practice of Freedom
In SunWALK alienation is primarily seen as the condition of severe and prolonged estrangement in which the individual feels her/him self to have no place, in one or more relevant groups. The individual may feel (violently) antipathetic to those groups. Such estrangement can, of course, be very expensive for such individuals and for the groups to whom they belong.
SunWALK is concerned with minimizing alienation through effectively equipping the individual to claim a place in her/his society and this includes incorporating Lipman’s notion of the class as ‘a community of inquiry’, including a high degree of democracy in its processes.
Alienation, according to Tom Heaney, is oppositional otherness–the simultaneous presence of conflict and distance. He points out that in the context of Freirean thinking there is a positive form that is a pre-requisite in creativity – opposing views bring forth newness or development. Perhaps the dialectical could be viewed as oppositional togetherness !
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