Posted by Dr. Barnaby B. Barratt | Mar 2018 | Critical Ideas |
Sometime in 2015, the government of Gauteng Province (which surrounds Johannesburg and is home to over 25% of South Africa’s population) decided to save money by deinstitutionalizing a substantial portion of the inpatient...
Read MorePosted by Dr. Barnaby B. Barratt | Dec 2017 | Critical Ideas |
Published in South Africa’s Mail and Guardian, January 5th to 11th, 2018, page 15. South Africa is a worldwide frontrunner in rape and domestic violence. The international news is now also focused on powerful men’s mistreatment...
Read MorePosted by Dr. Barnaby B. Barratt | Oct 2017 | Our Educational Future |
The writings of the late Paulo Freire, most notably his Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which was first published in Portuguese in 1968, continue today to serve as major references on education for critical thinking and literacy, as...
Read MorePosted by Dr. Barnaby B. Barratt | Jul 2017 | Critical Ideas |
Exactly fifty years ago, in July 1967, a group of scholars and activists gathered in London at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm for a now famous Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation. It was a powerful moment, just a year before...
Read MorePosted by Dr. Barnaby B. Barratt | Jun 2017 | Our Educational Future |
With permission of Professor Yusef Waghid of the University of Stellenbosch, the Parkmore Institute republishes here his commentary that appeared in the 9th June 2017 issue of South Africa’s Mail and Guardian. Although his focus...
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