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Conference Scholarships Available

Scholarship Applications are now available for the 21st Annual Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 11-14, 2015. Scholarships fund practitioners from around the world that exemplify in their work the mission of PTO and our annual gathering: to challenge oppressive systems by promoting critical thinking …

Notes from Intro to Pedagogy of the Oppressed

At the Intro to Pedagogy of the Oppressed workshop, participants shared their collective knowledge about Paulo Freire’s ideas and philosophies. We thought about Paulo Freire’s lived experiences that helped crystallize ideas of PO (“I’m not stupid, and neither are you. We are hungry, malnourished, and living in poverty.”) We traced …