CRITICAL LITERACY
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Critical Literary Arts in Action: The Decolonial Project of Ba re e ne re within and beyond Lesotho
In this article Lineo Segoete and Zachary Rosen of the Maseru Working Group explore the historical construction of literary infrastructure established in Lesotho. Building on an analysis of Sesotho language orthography by Dr Litšepiso Matlosa , the pair recall the colonial genesis of written Sesotho by Swiss and French missionaries. As a result of this influence,…
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Maseru Working Group in Dialogue with the Balisa in Sefikeng for International Literacy Day (10 September 2019).
The Maseru Working Group was invited to collaborate with the Lesotho Council of NGOs (LCN) and Lesotho Association of Non-formal Education (LANFE) to host a community dialogue with Herders (Balisa) in Sefikeng, Berea on 10 September 2019. The aim of the event was to engage on the value of literacy and education among Balisa and…
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DECOLONISING LITERACY WITH CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
This Learning Unit is intended to provide activity plans for students or other learners in late primary to high school, though they can be shared with any group of people with moderate literacy skills. The activities may be used in classrooms or workshop settings and can be used to develop and enhance critical dimension of…
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EXPERIMENTS IN INJECTING CRITICAL READINGS OF THE HISTORY OF ARTS AND DESIGN EDUCATION INTO AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN PUBLICATION DESIGN
This learning unit was designed for use by 1st year diploma level visual communication students at a tertiary-level art and design school in Uganda. Its aim was to introduce the students to publication design (as specified in the curriculum) while at the same time engaging them in critical readings of the history of art and…
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REENGAGING FREIRE: DECODING AND RE-CODING FREIRE’S “GENERATIVE IMAGES” AND CRITICAL ARTS EDUCATION
How do we engage students or participants of a learning programme in a gallery in discussing an artwork in a critical and potentially emancipatory manner? This Learning Unit proposes to reflect on methods for the critical reading of images by engaging with pictures for learning situations that were created following Paulo Freire’s approach of “generative…
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REENGAGING FREIRE: PAULO & ELZA IN GENEVA
How do we engage students or participants of a learning programme in a gallery in discussing an artwork in a critical and potentially emancipatory manner? This Learning Unit proposes to reflect on methods for the critical reading of images by engaging with pictures for learning situations that were created following Paulo Freire’s approach of “generative…