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Pedagogy of the oppressed

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'The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression ... a transformative text' George Monbiot, GuardianArguing that 'education is freedom', Paulo Freire's radical international classic contends that traditional teaching styles keep the poor powerless by treating them as passive, silent recipients of knowledge.

Grounded in Freire's own experience teaching impoverished and illiterate students in his native Brazil and over the world, this pioneering book instead suggests that through co-operation, dialogue and critical thinking, every human being can develop a sense of self and fulfil their right to be heard. 'Truly revolutionary' Ivan Illich

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Penguin Classics
0241301114 / 9780241301111
Paperback / softback
370.115
06/04/2017
United Kingdom
English
155 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Translated from the Portuguese This translation originally published: New York: Continuum, 1970.