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Models of leadership and Freire

Andrea Polli

Feb 23, 2004 14:46 PST

Hello to Marty and Rachel :)

I'm just re-reading Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a way to re-examine
my own work with people in the classroom and the community.

Rachel wrote:
 I'm interested the concept of leadership and how it works in distributed
communities or collaborations. For successful collaborations, I think that
good models of leadership need to be developed..

and Marty wrote:
 ...high school students are
given video access as a tool for analyzing, understanding, and challanging
the context of their own lives a la Paolo Freire.

Do you (or other members of this discussion group) find Freire's model of the
revolutionary leader useful on a practical level? How? I'm specifically
interested in Freire's emphasis on the need for co-investigators (aka
collaborators/cooperators) to be engaged in both action and reflection at the
highest level.

Freire states: "Leaders to bear the responsibility for coordination and, at
times, direction, but...their action and reflection cannot proceed without the
action and reflection of others."

I'd love to hear some specifics about ways you may have led or participated in
a process that combines critical analysis (reflection) and action in
collaborations, especially some of the ones mentioned that involve large groups
and multiple organizations.


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Andrea Polli
Associate Professor
Film and Media
Hunter College
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10021
212.772.5589
http://www.andreapolli.com

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