GODWIN &

FREIRENatalie Baez

WILLIAM GODWIN• English journalist, political

philosopher & novelist

• Founder of philosophical

anarchism

• Enquiry Concerning Political

Justice. (Of Obedience)

GODWIN’S LAWS OF OBEDIENCE

•Conviction

•Confidence

•Coercion

CONVICTION

“The purest kind of obedience is, where an action flows from

the independent conviction of our private judgment, where we

are directed, not by the precarious and mutable interference

of another, but by a recollection of the intrinsic and

indefeasible tendency of the action to be performed.”

• Making decisions based on

your own “private judgment.”

• No approval of others needed

• Convincing self through

reasoning

--MAKES US HUMAN!--

CONFIDENCE

“...Is that which depends for its validity upon confidence of him with

whom it prevails, and is where, not having myself acquired such

information as to enable me to form a judicious opinion, I yield a greater

or less degree of deference to the known sentiment and decision of

another.”

• Obeying another to get

something you want

• In your best self-interest

• Reciprocity

COERCION

“Authority in the last of the three senses alluded to, is where a man, in

issuing his precept, does not deliver that which may be neglected with

impunity; but his requisition is attended with a sanction, and the violation

of it will be followed with a penalty.”

• Force used for compliancy

(good or bad)

• Reward or Punishment

• Obeying another‟s conviction

--TURNS US INTO ANIMALS!--

PAULO FREIRE• Brazilian educator

• Critical pedagogy theorist

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

Chapter 2

FREIRE’S EDUCATION CONCEPTS

•Problem-Posing

•Banking Concept

PROBLEM POSING• Learning for life

• Engaged with real problems

• Teacher engages student, gets them involved &

challenges them think critically

“…She is always „cognitive‟, whether preparing a project or

engaging in dialogue with the students. He does not regard

objects as his private property, but as object of reflection by

himself and his students.”

Students are not

property!

BANKING CONCEPT

“…The educator‟s role is to regulate the way the world „enters

into’ the students. The teacher‟s task is to organize a process

which already occurs spontaneously, to „fill the students’ by

making deposits of information which he or she considers to

constitute true knowledge.”

• “Dehumanizes” us

• Teacher deposits info into

student, student stores and

withdraws it when needed

Human ATM machines!

Problem-Posing

Banking concept

Conviction

Confidence

Coercion

CONNECTIONSGodwin Freire

WORKS CITED

• Godwin, William. “Of Obedience,” Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. Ed. K. Codell

Carter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

• “Chapter 2 of Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” Trans. Myra Bergman Ramos. Bob

Corbett User Home Page. Webster University. 21 Mar. 2001. Web. 19 Aug. 2011.

• "William Godwin (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)." Stanford Encyclopedia of

Philosophy. Web. 03 Nov. 2011. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/godwin/>.

• "Paulo Freire and Informal Education." Contents @ the Informal Education Homepage.

Web. 03 Nov. 2011. <http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm>.

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