Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Name: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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ISBN: 9780826400475

ISBN-10: 0826400477

ISBN-13: 9780826400475

Edition: 1986

Authors: Paulo Freire, Myra B. Ramos, R. Shaull

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The late Paulo Freire, of Brazil, is perhaps the most influential education writer of our times. His many books, which include the classics Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Pedagogy of Freedom, have been translated into more than 40 languages.



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