04 · Pedagogy · Upcoming
AI Warrior Course 4. Paulo Freire's pedagogy of the oppressed, refitted for the age of generative AI. The chatbot is a banking-model classroom that talks back. Six lessons on dialogue, problem-posing, conscientização, and the kura kaupapa Māori parallel — Graham Hingangaroa Smith's kaupapa Māori praxis as Aotearoa's own refusal of the banking model. Sundays 19:00 NZST.
Why Freire, why now. Every chatbot is a banking-model classroom. Freire's antidote, mapped onto kura kaupapa Māori praxis. Six lessons across six weeks.
Recife 1921 to São Paulo 1997. The man whose literacy method taught sugar-cane workers to read the word and the world — and got him 70 days in a military prison for it.
Freire's banking concept of education, retold for the age of generative AI. What happens when the teacher is the model and the deposit is your prompt history.
From banking to dialogue. Problem-posing as a praxis — the prompts, the discipline, the refusal to be a passive depositor of someone else's training data.
Freire's central concept. Reading the word and the world when the world is a recommendation algorithm. How conscientização becomes a daily discipline, not a one-off awakening.
Graham Hingangaroa Smith's kaupapa Māori praxis read alongside Freire. Te reo revitalisation as a Freirean act. The pedagogy that built itself when the Crown's would not teach it.
Closing the loop. A working-class, kaupapa-aligned, AI-aware Freirean praxis. Generative themes for organisers, study circles, and the household. What we carry into Deleuze.