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Pedagogy of the oppressed

Title
Pedagogy of the oppressed / Paulo Freire ; translated by Myra Bergman Ramos ; with an introduction by Donald Macedo.
Author
Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997.
Publication
New York : Continuum, [2000], ©2000.

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Description
183 pages; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Pedagogia do oprimido. English
Alternative Title
Pedagogia do oprimido.
Subject
  • Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997
  • Education > Philosophy
  • Popular education > Philosophy
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Pedagogiek
  • Achtergestelden
  • Kritische pedagogiek
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Publisher's foreword -- Introduction to the anniversary edition / Donaldo Macedo -- Foreword / Ricahrd Shaull -- Preface -- 1. 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 -- 2. The "banking" concept of education as an instrument of oppression--its presuppositions--a critique ; the problem-posing concept of education as an instrument for liberation--its presuppositions ; the "banking" concept and the teacher-student contradiction ; the problem-posing 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 -- 3. Dialogics--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 the investigation of "generative themes" ; the various stages of the investigation -- 4. 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.
ISBN
  • 0826412769 (alk. paper)
  • 9780826412768 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 00030304
  • 99943297673
OCLC
  • ocm43929806\
  • 43929806
  • SCSB-4229178
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries