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Review: "First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come"--Provided by publisher.

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997 , author

Contributors:

Ramos, Myra Bergman , traslator

Macedo, Donaldo P. (Donaldo Pereira), 1950- , writer of introduction

Languages:

English
Portuguese

Language Notes:

Translated from the Portuguese Pedagogia do oprimido.

Main Work:

Pedagogia do oprimido [by Freire, P.] (English)

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Pedagogy of the oppressed [by Freire, P.] (Thirtieth anniversary edition; New York : Continuum, ©2000 — ISBN 0826412769; LCCN 00030304; OCLC Number 43929806)

Subjects:

Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997

Education — Philosophy

Popular education — Philosophy

Critical pedagogy

Education

Popular education

General Notes:

"First published in 2000 by the Continuum International Publishing Group Inc."
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB880.F73 P4313 2000eb

ISBNs:

9781501305313 (electronic book)
150130531X (electronic book)
9780826412768 (paperback) [Invalid]
0826412769 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

884280131