A review by pelks
Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Impacts) by Paulo Freire

5.0

An excellent, thought-provoking read for anyone interested in theories of how pedagogy is relates to societal inequalities. In essence, this book explains a concept of pedagogy that counters the "bank" model of education, wherein teachers "deposit" knowledge in order for it to be simply "withdrawn" from students' memories later. Instead, Freire poses what he calls a "dialogical" framework for education, in which "the oppressed" lead themselves to new knowledge through dialogical interaction with the realities of their world. The book is very dense and contains a lot more than just what I mentioned above, but I think its approach (both theoretically and practically) to education is its most powerful aspect.