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Pedagogy of the oppressed / Paulo Freire ; translated by Myra Bergman Ramos ; with an introduction by Donaldo Macedo.
Van Pelt Library LB880.F73 P4313 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Pedagogia do oprimido. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997.
- Freire, Paulo.
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education.
- Popular education--Philosophy.
- Popular education.
- Critical pedagogy.
- Physical Description:
- 183 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Thirtieth anniversary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- Contents:
- Publisher's foreword
- Introduction to the anniversary edition / Donaldo Macedo
- Foreword / Richard 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:
- 9780826412768
- 0826412769
- OCLC:
- 1014182202
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