Pedagogy of boys Dictionary of Technology as phenomenology of cycles without a history

pages: 139-155

Abstract

The author examines the pedagogical interpretation and contribution of the Dictionary of Technology (published in 1981) and critical revolutionary pedagogy of Paulo Freire and his followers, Henry Giroux and Peter McLaren. A comparative ref lection on the Dictionary of Technology and Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire most renowned book, is possible due to the clear effort of both works directed against the dehumanization and conversion of the pedagogical process into technology. Freire educational process sees as a simulacrum of the banking system while the Dictionary of Technology very closely, but more generally sees it as the predominance of illusion, no matter who is oppressed by whom. The illusion would exist even in a world without a relationship of dominance, because the dismissal of oppression will not liberate us from the history. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 178018: Društvene krize i savremena srpska književnost i kultura: nacionalni, regionalni, evropski i globalni okvir] Keywords: Dictionary of Technology, Paulo Freire, Claude Levi-Strauss, the revolutionary pedagogy, history, kids, dehumanization, mirror