Fernanda Silva

Interdisciplinary Science Teacher @ Avenues São Paulo #PBL #edchat

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@greg_ashman "how little Freire has to offer teachers today" - wow. He taught marginalized populations in the context of a dictatorship. His reflection is on emancipation through education, not strategies to teach 10yo math students now.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@Daniell35058029 @greg_ashman "esta porcaria" mostra claramente que você não entendeu absolutamente nada do que ele falou

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@tenaciouscrone @greg_ashman you understood nothing of his work if you think his rhetoric is poisonous.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@DrNeil22 @greg_ashman and this is how someone shows they understood nothing of what they've read

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@greg_ashman His work was done while Brazil was under a dictatorship, showing how education is never neutral—it either reproduces oppression or empowers people. Slamming Pedagogy of the Oppressed for not being a teaching manual isn’t critique if you don’t analyze the full picture.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@greg_ashman The direct instruction vs. inquiry debate is about pedagogical efficiency (which model best supports learning outcomes). Freire’s work is about the political and ethical dimensions of education—whether education reproduces oppression or cultivates critical consciousness.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@edudissenter @greg_ashman You could not be more wrong. You clearly don’t know the context of his work.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@ToddVercoe @greg_ashman There is no such thing as neutral education. Please.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@pauldrossi @greg_ashman yes, it was. People don’t understand that because they don’t know his story and the context of his work. The result is irrelevant opinions like some here.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@mongreloutsider @larissaphillip @greg_ashman Brazil’s current education system is not based on Paulo Freire’s methods.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@RJB948468940353 @dickjones4real @DrNeilStone the fact that there is a scale going from 1-14 has nothing to do with the body maintaining a stable pH. You keep repeating that people don’t do research but it’s clear you don’t know what you’re talking about. Google it. This is 9th grade science content.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@RJB948468940353 @DrNeilStone this doesn’t make sense. The body maintains the blood pH stable so there is no such thing as eating alkaline food to change its pH. Please study.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

If you’re a teacher you’ve seen this happening. The question here is: how do we create contradiction to replace the flawed model? Great 🧵.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Not all wrong answers are equal. I used to think students just needed the right information to fix misconceptions but then I read the work of Michelene Chi🧵⬇️

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@Ilonabecskehazy @P_A_Kirschner Paulo Freire never demonized the existence of curriculum nor defended the removal of the teacher’s responsibility to teach. It seems like you don’t understand the context of his work.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@dshensmith then they can go to a different restaurant. Plenty of Five Guys to buy bacon from. Funny how the free market is not as “free” as one might suggest.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@CryptoSugaDaddy @CptAncapistan @DrNeilStone this shows you don’t know how babies get Hep B but still feel confident enough to give your opinion

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@TRESPjusbr o app não me deixa selecionar a eleição. Estou na Holanda. O que fazer?

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@C_Hendrick @MrZachG not to forget the historical context of his work: many millions of illiterate people living in poverty in a country characterized by inequality and oppression, followed by a dictatorship. Education”s goal was to liberate people.

[Fernanda Silva @fernandadesani]

@C_Hendrick @MrZachG Paulo Freire’s method was developed to improve literacy of working adults (not children) from poor rural areas of Brazil. His goal was to 1) help adults read/write in a short period of time (which he succeeded) and 2) help them become critically aware of their social reality.