WEBINAR

Thinking With Paulo Freire: What Humanises Our Work?

Date: Wednesday 18 March, 2026

Time: 10am-12pm (London, UK) with a ten-minute break

Price: Free

Speakers: Dr Rebekah Howes and Professor Nigel Tubbs

The Brazilian educator and activist Paulo Freire challenged traditional models of authority and showed how humanising relationships are built through dialogue, shared learning, and mutual respect.

Best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire developed a radically relational approach to learning grounded in critical thinking, liberation, and social change. His work has shaped educational practice and social care work around the world.

This webinar explores his critique of dehumanisation, his relational approach to change, and his influence on wider thinking, all with a focus on how these ideas can strengthen care and social work practice.

Meet the speakers

Dr Rebekah Howes 

Dr Rebekah Howes has 15 years’ experience teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the university sector, and publishing and presenting papers internationally.

In 2010 she co-designed and led the first Liberal Arts degree in the UK. She brings to Think Learning the strong belief that what and how we learn should matter to us as human beings, and she hopes to continue to develop this sense of humanity in her work with course participants.

Professor Nigel Tubbs

Nigel Tubbs was Professor at the University of Winchester for 15 years after having been a school teacher in West Sussex and Brighton in the 1980s and early 1990s. He led two undergraduate programmes, in Education Studies, and more recently in Liberal Arts, which was the first such programme to be reintroduced into English universities for many decades (having begun life in Ancient Greece with Plato and Aristotle).

As a university researcher he wrote nine books, including Socrates On Trial, which was a New Statesman book of the year 2021. He is currently part of a new venture in higher education called Think Learning.