Nita Freire's Keynote Speech from the official launch of the Project.

Filmed in Montreal, Canada, March 2008. English Subtitles.

Introduction to my first blog
Welcome to my first blog entry on The Paulo and Nita Freire site! Thank you, Joe Kincheloe, Shirley Steinberg, David Smith, Freire Bloggers, and McGill University for providing me the opportunity to contribute to this project! I have thoroughly enjoyed reading everyone’s blogs on the site as well as the wonderful dialogue. I have also enjoyed reading the articles and journals posted on the site.

During an interview, Paulo Freire described his pedagogy as a “pedagogy of happiness, laughter, of questioning, or curiosity, of seeing the future through the present, a pedagogy that believes in the possibility of the transformation of the world” (McLaren, 2007, p. 320).

Nothing is impossible when we work in solidarity with love, respect, and justice as
our guiding lights. —Kincheloe