Pedagogy of the Oppressed

176 pages

English language

Published July 23, 1996

ISBN:
9780140254037

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Portuguese: Pedagogia do Oprimido) is a book by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, written in Portuguese in 1967-68, but published first in English, in a translation by Myra Bergman Ramos, in 1970 (New York: Herder & Herder). Later that year a Spanish translation was published (Montevideo: Tierra Nuova). The version in Portuguese was published in 1972 in Portugal (Porto: Afrontamento), and finally appeared in Brazil in 1974 (Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra). The book is considered one of the foundational texts of critical pedagogy, and proposes a pedagogy with a new relationship between teacher, student, and society. Dedicated to the oppressed and based on his own experience helping Brazilian adults to read and write, Freire includes a detailed Marxist class analysis in his exploration of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. In the book, Freire calls traditional pedagogy the "banking model of education" because …

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Path to liberation

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So much on my mind after reading this wonderful book. I am currently going through many great changed in my life. I'm a month sober, I'm working out again. I completely lost myself. However, I'm slowly finding myself again. I always knew I was (or am) a being. I was trapped in oppression (still am) but now I know a lot more than before. I vow to stay a humanist and not become an oppressor. I vow to become a revolutionary leader, not a reactionary one. I cannot impose my ideas on people for my own purposes, they (the people) must think for themselves. But I can certainly help by learning with them and showing love. Thank you, Paulo Freire. I hope your spirit can hear my gratitude. You have changed my life.

The book is separated in four chapters that all cover really great topics. I don't really read …