What if Freire Had Facebook? A Critical Interrogation of Social Media Woke Culture Among Privileged Voices in [Computer Science] Education Discourse

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In this episode I unpack Coppola’s (2021) publication titled “What if Freire had Facebook? A critical interrogation of social media woke culture among privileged voices in music education discourse,” which summarizes Paulo Freire’s works and hypothesizes how Freire may have responded to some forms of woke culture.

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00:00 Intro

00:33 Abstract

01:33 My single sentence summary

02:14 Paper introduction

03:13 Positionality and Audience

07:13 Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Critiques

08:23 What it Means to be “Woke”

09:23 Call-Out Culture and Cancel Culture

10:12 Virtue Signaling, Moral Grandstanding, and Performative Allyship

12:25 Avoiding Tone Policing

14:06 A Freirean Interrogation of Social Media Woke Culture Wokeness and Conscientização

14:48 Call-Out Culture, Cancel Culture, and (De)humanization

18:52 The Ethics of Virtue Signaling

19:50 Tone Policing

20:23 A Pedagogy of Love and Humility

20:38 Toward a Pedagogy of Humility

24:30 Toward a More Dialogical Social Media Culture

27:22 Lingering questions and thoughts

27:27 If you are in a marginalized group, how do you prefer coconspirators collaborate with you?

28:18 In what ways do I unknowingly engage in these problematic forms of woke culture?

28:40 Outro