Topic > Knowledge At The Logos Level - 1393

Answer To Question Number TwoUnder the conditions, doxa, educator, is, the knowledge, at the logos level, of posing problems, role, students, overcome, together, true, under, with, which. You have just read twenty-one different words listed in alphabetical order written in the English language. It is quite reasonable to believe that a person of average intelligence, fluent in the language, would know what each of these words mean. Otherwise, however, one could easily find their definitions among the pages of a dictionary, or among the archives of today's world wide web. But what if the language of these words changed and suddenly they were no longer written in English, but in Spanish, or French, or Arabic, or Chinese? Would their meanings change in the perceptions of those who perceive them? What would happen if you took these words and mixed them into a statement written by Paulo Friere as "The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions in which knowledge at the doxa level is surpassed by true knowledge , at the level of logos” (266). Sure you may know what each of these words means, but do you really understand the complexity of craftsmanship, portraying years of frustration through the artistic arrangement of those words fused together? comprehend a statement like this, you need to understand the context in which it was created, the beliefs held by its creator, and the message that Paulo Freire, originally from Recife, Brazil, spent much of his early life of his career working in poor areas of his homeland, developing methods to teach illiterate adults to read and write (as he would say) to think critically and, therefore, to take power over their own lives (258)… Choice, second for Freire, it's quite simple: teachers work "for the liberation of people - their humanization - or for their domestication, their domination... According to Freire, the most crucial competence of a teacher is his ability to assist the students' struggle to gain control over the conditions of their lives, and that means helping them not just to know but to “know that they know.” write what you read (259).