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A review by sookieskipper
Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Impacts) by Paulo Freire
4.0
Freire critical pedagogy can be easily confused with missionary education that colonizers used for years (like British in India or Portuguese in Brazil etc). Educating the oppressed by the oppressor can have several negative connotation, primarily erasure of sense of local history. This is predominant during colonization as there was an urgency to understand local history and align to their world view. Freire hypothesizes that educators have the duty to identify oppression in any form; though oppression may come from saying something like "Listen to me, I know it best" which is inherently antithesis to Freire's hypothesis.
There is a profitability in institutionalizing education system. Freire notes it early in the book and compares it to educators who traveled with colonizers to "educate" the colonized. He further notes that an agenda based education doesn't liberate the students as education is supposed to. A teacher can engage with a student in a transaction mode where their relationship exists as long as they share same class and the teacher provides enough guidance to the student to pass, or a teacher personally invests their time to engage in a dialogue, a conversation with a student. Freire carefully points out that the oppression need not be a geopolitical or socioeconomic one. It can be that of ideas, points of view and perspectives on what one would define as "good".
A necessary read to those who are on either side of this dialogue.
There is a profitability in institutionalizing education system. Freire notes it early in the book and compares it to educators who traveled with colonizers to "educate" the colonized. He further notes that an agenda based education doesn't liberate the students as education is supposed to. A teacher can engage with a student in a transaction mode where their relationship exists as long as they share same class and the teacher provides enough guidance to the student to pass, or a teacher personally invests their time to engage in a dialogue, a conversation with a student. Freire carefully points out that the oppression need not be a geopolitical or socioeconomic one. It can be that of ideas, points of view and perspectives on what one would define as "good".
A necessary read to those who are on either side of this dialogue.