Book Report: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paula Freire



Book Report: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paula Freire

Introduction

This book was written in 1969. The author outlines the principles of a method of "concretization" he experienced in Brazil, where he was responsible for an extensive literacy program by the Ministry of Education and Culture and which touched nearly two million men and women who are illiterate and in Chile from 1964 to 1967, under the government of Eduardo Frei. Paulo Freire is part of an optical struggle for the liberation of oppressed peoples. His practice literacy leads to understand the key role of awareness as a prerequisite to transforming action. It therefore seeks to clarify the mental attitudes and relationships that obscure or clarify personal and collective consciousness. He bases his thinking on the Marxist analysis of power relations between human groups and humanist ethics of human action (Freire, 2000).

This book is intended to revolutionary leaders, i.e. those which accompany the oppressed peoples in a process of awareness and liberation. Although situated historically and geographically, analyzes of human relations and educational policy principles outlined in this book seem transferable to our time andss in our developed countries.

The contribution to the work of Paulo Freire (1921-1997) has been important in the development of educational ideas in the second half of the twentieth century. Our concerns and ideas led him to build a pedagogy focused on the popular classes. His vision is focused on the conception of libertarian education through a pedagogy that will be done with these classes, the class of the oppressed, not for them. It's what he called pedagogy of the oppressed.

Summary of the Main Points

Pedagogy of the Oppressed was first released in 1970 and has become a best seller among scholars of education. His method is to know ...