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The Third World Revolt against First World Social Science

The Third World Revolt against First World Social Science The Third World Revolt against First World Social Science: A n Explication suggested by the Revolutionary Pedagogy of Paulo Freire FREDERICK H. GAREAU Florida State University, Tallahasse, U.S.A. ABSTRACT The first of the two major goals of this paper is to give more form and content to the process whereby the third world indigenizes the social sciences-elements seriously lacking in the present literature. Indigenization is seen in this paper as a phenomenon, whereby third world social scientists reject paradigms from the first world and formulate their own "authentic" ones. The form and content referred to above, this model process, are con- structed by drawing an analogy with Paula Freire's revolutionary pedagogy. In drawing this analogy, we achieve the second major goal of the paper, which is to warn first world social scientists and educators of the existence and the magnitude of the indigenization movement in the third world. There this movement is seen as part and parcel of the strug- gle for decolonization, from both colonial and neo-colonial structures. First world social scientists and educators are thus put on notice that their paradigms which they typically view as international reference models, valued for their intrinsic scientific worth, are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1986 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0020-7152
eISSN
1745-2554
DOI
10.1163/156854286X00131
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Abstract

The Third World Revolt against First World Social Science: A n Explication suggested by the Revolutionary Pedagogy of Paulo Freire FREDERICK H. GAREAU Florida State University, Tallahasse, U.S.A. ABSTRACT The first of the two major goals of this paper is to give more form and content to the process whereby the third world indigenizes the social sciences-elements seriously lacking in the present literature. Indigenization is seen in this paper as a phenomenon, whereby third world social scientists reject paradigms from the first world and formulate their own "authentic" ones. The form and content referred to above, this model process, are con- structed by drawing an analogy with Paula Freire's revolutionary pedagogy. In drawing this analogy, we achieve the second major goal of the paper, which is to warn first world social scientists and educators of the existence and the magnitude of the indigenization movement in the third world. There this movement is seen as part and parcel of the strug- gle for decolonization, from both colonial and neo-colonial structures. First world social scientists and educators are thus put on notice that their paradigms which they typically view as international reference models, valued for their intrinsic scientific worth, are

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1986

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