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This text argues that the ignorance and lethargy of the poor are the direct result of the whole economic, social and political domination. The book suggests that in some countries the oppressors use the system to maintain a "culture of silence". Through the right kind of education, the book suggests, avoiding authoritarian teacher-pupil models and based on the actual experiences of students and on continual shared investigation, every human being, no matter how impoverished or illiterate, can develop a new awareness of self, and the right to be heard.
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Paulo Freire (1921-1997) was a Brazilian educational theorist.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Friere's classic book seeks to understand the way that the form in which education is offered can have a profound impact on the effect which that education has. His work comes out of the experience of running literacy classes for peasant people in Latin America. What he found was that traditional types of educational practice reproduced passivity and disinterest, and reinforced in those people's eyes the idea that they could never acquire an education. He sought to offer a different kind of education where the process of learning was linked with an understanding of the dynamics of power and oppression. For Friere education was about the process of "becoming fully human" and coming to a consciousness of the world around you. He found these methods to be extremely successful, as have many educators working with socially marginalised groups who have entered education. At a time when large numbers of "non-traditional" students are entering the 'new university' sector in the UK, this book, offers an important resource to teachers and students alike. Though it has been several years since it was first published, it deserves to come into its own yet again.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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I admit that for most this hardly makes light bedtime reading, but it is worth persevering with. If you expect to pick it up, read it and instantaneously know everything there is to know about oppression then you are sadly mistaken, and as far as I understand the book at the moment, the author would not hope for that to be the case.
But this book is so so so worth persevering with. When the Freire's ideas are pondered over within the context of life, living and working with the oppressed, as a subject of oppression, maybe even as an oppressor, this book will be invaluable in the search for living out liberation.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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An essential book for those who wish to understand how education is strongly connected to social inequality and how it is used to dominate the oppressed masses. This book is interesting and relevant not only within the context of Brazilian inequality, but also in a wider context that involves every developing country and perhaps even developed ones.
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hard read
good book so far, still trying to read it and have been told its worth reading then reading again ! having to re-read sections to make sense of it !
Published 24 days ago by cookie
Still Relevant
In social history the oppressed class has always had the same barriers, to perceive themselves as a group and then to create a change in their circumstances. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Eimear
Contexts and culture
A book all about contexts and culture - particularly authoritarian contexts and the damage they can cause. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Peter W. Burden
Hard Going
This book is a really difficult read and is only for the truly academic. I bought it as part of my MBA studies and am struggling.
Published 8 months ago by Nicoya Palastanga
Book review
The book arrived promptly in excellent condition. This is a very useful book for me to use in my teaching.
Published 15 months ago by youthy
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The Coalition Government is committed to training 5,000 'community organisers,' based on Freire and Alinsky, from 2011 - 2015. Read more
The Coalition Government is committed to training 5,000 'community organisers,' based on Freire and Alinsky, from 2011 - 2015. Read more
Published 16 months ago by L. Baker
Fear of Freedom?
Not an easy read according to other reviewers. Well it becomes dificult if the staple diet is pop psyche. It takes me two or three goes to read a page and then let it sink in. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles
The Curriculum
I purchased this book as part of my studies to gain full teaching accreditation. My assignment was on the Curriculum and my reading led to understand that Freire's works and... Read more
Published on 5 May 2010 by BBSS1 (Bruce Blood Sister1)
essential reading
One of the towering polemics in the study of human nature. Essential reading for the tutor and student alike.
Published on 6 Dec 2009 by Gazpops
Freire uses 20 words where 5 will do.
Summary: the oppressors of the world keep down the oppressed by a bad type of teaching called "banking", the oppressed don't realise this so they don't do anything about it. Read more
Published on 23 April 2005
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