Bridging identity, culture and nation: applying Freire to study abroad in Ghana
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v15i3p143-167Keywords:
Identity, Culture, Paulo Freire, Ghana, Student excursionAbstract
This essay shows how Paulo Freire’s pedagogy has informed a long-running, immersive annual excursion of the USA University of Oregon journalism and communication students to Ghana, West Africa. The students are diverse in many ways: by economic class, racioethnic identity, gender, sexuality, disability, and cultural background. They are doubly challenged to live together and to work in separate internships in an unfamiliar cultural environment alongside Ghanaians, while also completing assignments and meeting program learning outcomes. Freire’s concepts and methods sought to break down barriers between teachers and students and empower all participants while engaging in literacy training.
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