5/8/2023 0 Comments Pedagogy of the oppressed 1970![]() ![]() ![]() His influence is still hotly debated in Brazil. Forced to flee his native Brazil following a military coup in 1964, Freire wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed while in exile in Chile and he remains a touchstone figure for social justice and equality activists in the global North and South. Born in 1921 in Recife, Brazil, Freire was a philosopher, educator and activist who worked with illiterate peasants using a revolutionary methodology that elevated education beyond the classroom to wider social and economic transformation. The fiftieth anniversary of the publication in English of Paulo Freire’s seminal text, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1996 ), offers the opportunity for a re-appraisal in the age of climate emergency, populist nationalism and fake news. Freire, P (1996 ) Pedagogy of the Oppressed, London and New York: Penguin Books. ![]()
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