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 Classic Freire January 4, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
For the politically driven educator or other social worker, Paulo Freire provides experience and inspiration from his struggles to empower the downtrodden in his home country of Brazil. Pedagogy of the Oppressed is the most accessible of Freire's education-centered writings, which explains why is his most popular. In this book, Freire identifies the ways traditional pedagogy works to reinforce the 'status quo' and how it may even increase the stratification between the upper and lower classes. The following chapters outline an inspirational and empowering philosophy that, when coupled with education, shows promise to bring about change. A must for any educator concerned with social issues.
pedagogy of the oppressed paulo freire January 4, 2007
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful liberating view on empowerment of the self and an understanding of, how inthis world people can disempower themselves by accepting the view of the powerful and remaining as victims in their own lives.
the most important thing to know is that to achieve true equality is for the oppressed to free the oppressor
 Challenging July 24, 2006
7 out of 31 found this review helpful
I read this book for a graduate studies class. The critical padagogy Freire gives is excellent and we had deep discussions in class. The reading is challenging because some points are repeated and one wonders whether one is making any headway at times. The ideas re education are basic to understanding current educational trends.
MARVELOUS July 1, 2005
17 out of 35 found this review helpful
This was one of the hardest reads I have gone through in my young 16 years of life. And at the same time, perhaps the most rewarding. You wanta make change? You wanta be a revolutionary? Great intro to liberating yourself and those who are oppressed around you. DO NOT TRY TO COMPARE TO MARX. Though you can draw similarities, this particular work is just to different. Go read it.
I'll make this short, he didnt. December 6, 2004
19 out of 99 found this review helpful
So many words to say so little. This book could have been three pages long and that would have been sufficient. He goes on and on on the same topics of what its like to be oppressed and what the oppressed must do to brake free from oppression. This is all very much common sence, at least it seems so to me, having taken a college class here and there. Marx is taken far out of context and this book altogether preaches a utopian way of things thats as far fetched as communism functioning in a capitalist society.
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