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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Grace and I enjoyed
today so have just had a discussion about Paulo Freire – Pedagogy of the
Oppressed. If you don’t mind I’ve included those links to the
webhosting, The Flynn Effect and some other thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>1&1 website
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><a
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>The Flynn Effect
shows that ‘intelligence’ changes over time given greater
opportunity to interface with education and the social environment in the
developing world (IQ differences in race and gender are now becoming smaller
due to a rise in environmental opportunities / education, which goes against
previous eugenic theories on heritability). Conversely, this has implications
where opportunities are denied in schools and Higher Education. The Flynn
Effect shows we are getting better at abstract reasoning but no better at
finding world view solutions, a credible observation when considering our
environmental situation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/are-we-getting-smarter/4109676">http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/are-we-getting-smarter/4109676</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6835805/Are%20We%20Getting%20Smarter/?site_locale=en_GB&?site_locale=en_GB">http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6835805/Are%20We%20Getting%20Smarter/?site_locale=en_GB&?site_locale=en_GB</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Carl Sagan,
Dragons of Eden, wrote about extra-evolution, human intelligence, as being the
only place for finding solutions to humanity’s problems. The downside
being, we are probably the only species on the planet to be aware of our own
mortality, which leads to a tendency to live for today, to seek instant
gratification, to ‘escape’ from capitalist oppression, rather than
long term solutions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Freire, for me,
provides an alternative to standardised education. The relationship between
learner and teacher is important to be based on mutual respect and neutral
power. We are all teachers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>I try to show my
children a world view that is critical and meaningful as part of a reciprocal
process because I firmly believe that their survival depends on finding new
solutions to world problems. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Teaching
one’s children should obviously be community based and provides an
opportunity to act when it is not working. How to empower, to liberate through
education? I mostly find the best way is to ask my children!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>A public lecture
should be good for attracting new students as does occupying public spaces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>I’m still
not sure what my role is insofar as I wanted to be a student-scholar with
extension into learning support for potential disabled learners. Is this still
possible? And is there scope to be part of a working group?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Alan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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