pedagogy of the oppressed summary

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reolutionary techniues stand in opposition to these and must be used by

reolutionary leaders. #hese are cooperation, unity for liberation, organi$ation, and

cultural synthesis.

#he Pedagogy of the Oppressed is a boo" about ideas, and the ideas

presented are those of the author, Paulo Freire. Freire is an educator and areolutionary. -lthough Freire states in the preface that he has neer been inoled

in a reolution, he loo"s upon his role in education as reolutionary and he beliees

in the ideal of a reolution of the common people. +e is interested in the problem of

impoerished, oppressed people, and he beliees that the problem is systemic,

rooted in the struggle bet!een an oppressie upper class bent on maintaining

po!er and an oppressed lo!er class rendered impotent by oppression.

Freire's ideas are essentially arist, but they are also humanist and een

democratic, in the sense of belieing that all people are eual. Freire ie!s human

"no!ledge in a relatiistic !ay. Instead of saying that the uneducated lac"

"no!ledge or are...

Conscientização Freire uses the term conscienti$a/0o to mean a critical

understanding or conscious a!areness of one's situation.

Contradiction

For Freire, the term contradiction means a situation that is counter to the natural

human condition and the human drie to ful*ll itself. - contradiction is a situation

that negates humani$ation. #he situation of oppression is a contradiction, and so is

the traditional teacher(student relationship.

Subject

Freire uses the capitali$ed term Sub)ect to describe a person !ho is fully a!are of

his or her situation and is able to eercise free !ill to act on the !orld.

Praxis

Freire uses the term prais to mean the combination of free thought and action.

Prais is a process, !hich is the interaction of clear, "no!ledgeable re1ection and

the action upon the !orld that is implicit in cogent human thought.

Banking Education Freire uses the metaphor of ban"ing to describe traditional

Oppression

#he main theme of Freire's boo" is oppression, the state of society that causes one

class of people to remain entrenched in poerty !hile another class of people

en)oys the bene*ts of the lo!er class's labor. Freire beliees that oppression is an

act of iolence by the oppressors, !ho iolate the oppressed by suppressing their

humanity and ma"ing them impotent to thin" and act. #he oppressed become part



of a system that "eeps them from adancing as human beings or acting on the

!orld according to their !ill.

For Freire, oppression is an unnatural state, something he calls a contradiction.

Oppression runs contrary to the natural essence of humanity, and so it

dehumani$es both the oppressor and the oppressed. #he opposite of oppression isfreedom, !hich is a humani$ing eperience inoling learning to thin" critically and

then acting on one's thoughts and beliefs. Part of gaining freedom is...

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