Bloomsbury Academic eBooks· 2021· Book chapter
Education for Critical Consciousness
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Short summary
Paulo Freire's seminal work, 'Education for Critical Consciousness,' presents a revolutionary educational method rooted in the learner's life situation to foster consciousness-raising and overcome oppression.
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Key points
- Presents Freire's revolutionary educational method, 'critical pedagogy'.
- Uses the learner's life situation as the starting point for education.
- Aims to raise consciousness and overcome obstacles to humanity.
- Argues that changing dehumanizing structures is essential for humanization.
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Abstract
Famous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals. For Freire, man's striving for his own humanity requires the changing of structures which dehumanize both the oppressor and the oppressed. This edition includes a substantial new introduction by Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA, USA.
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