Critical pedagogy is not a method, rather it opens a space for students to act and assert themselves as agents, question their assumptions, develop an appreciation for history and critically interrogate the idea that education is a value-neutral enterprise.įreire, P. This may lead to people altering oppressive structural conditions. According to Freire, becoming aware of the conditions of one’s oppression conscientises oppressed peoples and, in turn, catalyses transformative actions. Freire argued that mainstream education, as it is predominantly practiced, revolves around teachers’ attempts to deposit knowledge ‘into’ students, who are understood to be passive, empty “accounts”.Īs an alternative educational approach, Freire proposed that oppressed peoples need to become critically conscious, which is, in his view, the first step towards liberation and social change. Freire held extremely negative views of mainstream approaches to education, using the metaphor of the “banking” system to describe them. Paulo Freire was a Brazilian educationalist and philosopher whose radical ideas about pedagogy, learning and knowledge led to the establishment of the critical pedagogy movement.
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