![]() ![]() The oppressor needs the oppressed to mediate its role and thus is co-dependent of the oppressed. In this way, Freire draws parallels with Marx’s class struggle between the bourgeoise that owns production means and proletariat that make a living by selling their time.Ī remarkable realization of this book is that neither oppressor or oppressed are Free. A power differential is implied – the teacher owns the knowledge the student needs. The teacher owns the knowledge (in the sense of a landlord/proprietor) which he deposits in the student, depicted as a subaltern passive recipient of knowledge (akin to a bank account). Freire sees the teacher-student relationship as an unequal relationship of dependence. ![]() In this pioneering work, Paulo Freire applies Marx’s dialectical materialism to conclude that contemporary education is an instrument of oppression. After Brazil’s military coup d’etat, Freire was arrested and exiled, first to Bolivia and then Chile, during those years of exile he wrote this book. Later he became director of the council’s department of education, until he joined academia where he conducted educational experiments with illiterate adults and designed the national plan for alphabetization. ![]() Paulo Freire studied law but decided to make a career change to become a Portuguese teacher in a high school of Recife, Brazil. ![]()
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