Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin Education)

Name: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin Education)
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ISBN: 9780140254037

ISBN-10: 014025403X

ISBN-13: 9780140254037

Edition: N/A

Authors: Paulo Freire

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20 years on, this revolutionary work has been revised and updated, and Paulo Freire outlines a blueprint for revolution. This is a fascinating account which continues to influence educationalists across the world.

Book details

List price: $18.60
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Pages: 176
Size: 4.23" wide x 6.62" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.484



Introduction to the Anniversary Edition



Foreword



Preface



The justification for a pedagogy of the oppressed


The contradiction between the oppressors and the oppressed, and how it is overcome


Oppression and the oppressors


Oppression and the oppressed


Liberation: not a gift, not a self-achievement, but a mutual process



The "banking" concept of education as an instrument of oppressionï¿½€"its presuppositionsï¿½€"a critique


The problem-posing concept of education as an instrument for liberationï¿½€"its presuppositions


The "banking" concept and the teacher-student contradiction


The problem-posting concept and the supersedence of the teacher-student contradiction


Education: a mutual process, world-mediated


People as uncompleted beings, conscious of their incompletion, and their attempt to be more fully human



Dialogicsï¿½€"the essence of education as the practice of freedom


Dialogics and dialogue


Dialogue and the search for program content


The human-world relationship, "generative themes," and the program content of education as the practice of freedom


The investigation of "generative themes" and its methodology


The awakening of critical consciousness through investigation of "generative themes"


The various stages of the investigation



Antidialogics and dialogics as matrices of opposing theories of cultural action: the former as an instrument of oppression and the latter as an instrument of liberation


The theory of antidialogical action and its characteristics: conquest, divide and rule, manipulation, and cultural invasion


The theory of dialogical action and its characteristics: cooperation, unity, organization, and cultural synthesis