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A 7 page book review of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. This examination of Freire's text, first of all, offers an extensive summation and overview of the book. It then relates this information to practical applications and closes by offering a critique and concluding thoughts. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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where a person already initiated (the teacher) introduces uninitiated people (the pupils) to the knowledge that society wants them to master, know, and remember" (Cited by Hewett, 2000, p. 111).
This utilitarian approach to education is quite culture specific, placing a high priority on factual knowledge and job skills, while allowing little room for aesthetic areas of learning (Hewett, 2000).
Paulo Freire in his text Pedagogy of the Oppressed rejects this model for learning, calling it "education for domestication" (Hewett, 2000, p. 111). From the time of its publication
in 1970, Freires pedagogical model has had an immense impact on its readers and the field of education. For example, Driedger (2004) describes how Freires model fit with the
work that she was undertaking at that time, which was leading training programs for the disabled. As an adult educator in various parts of the world, Driedger has employed Freires
ideas in order to stimulate people to talk, to examine their culture and position in society and to use language as an instrument of liberation (Driedger, 2004). Freire proposes
that both education and research are "political venues wherein power operates and reproduces itself in the social domain" (Chavez, Turalba and Malik, 2006, p. 1175). An important element in Freires
pedagogical approach is his definition of what it means to be a "democratic" instructor, that is someone who encourages and facilitates critical dialogue among learners relative to their social conditions,
and in the process, motivates learners to take action and control in their lives (Chavez, Turalba and Malik, 2006). The following examination of Freires text, first of all, offers an
extensive summation and overview of the book. It then relates this information to practical applications and closes by offering a critique and concluding thoughts. Overview of the book In
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