Knowledge divorced from application becomes flavorless publication lists

Evidence

In his seminal text Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire (1970) identifies praxis as the backbone of a more humanizing alternative to this banking model. To Freire (1970), education in its purest form is praxis, or reflection combined with action, with a conscious aim to do so for the purpose of social transformation. Only through a consistent process of reflection and action can university-based academics reach full humanity. When divorced from application, knowledge becomes banal and flavorless, a collection of publications that have no use beyond one’s dissertation defense or tenure case. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1187

Categorization

• DEFINE: Restates Freire’s praxis = reflection + action and applies it to academic publishing.
• XREF: Reinforces earlier definitions of praxis from the book’s Freire chapters; also resonates with ch13 on teacher inner-outer self friction. — connects to: Publish-or-perish pressure converts scholarship into a form of oppression. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1214