Pedagogy of the Oppressed By Paulo Freire

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By Paulo Freire

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First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The book is considered one of the foundational texts of critical pedagogy, and proposes 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 it treats the student as an empty vessel to be filled with knowledge, like a piggy bank. He argues that pedagogy should instead treat the learner as a co-creator of knowledge.

It is one of the most cited book in social science.

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