In addition, I wrote this book on the basis of my extensive experience with peasants in Chile being absolutely convinced of the process of ideological hegemony and what that meant. When I wrote I was already completely convinced of the problem of social classes. His four-and-a-half year stay in Chile impacted him intellectually, pedagogically, and ideologically, and contributed significantly to the theory and analysis he presents in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. After a brief stay in Bolivia, he moved to Chile in November 1964 and stayed until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University.

Background and publication ĭue to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years. : 9 It is the third most cited book in the social sciences. Īs of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide. He argues that pedagogy should instead treat the learner as a co-creator of knowledge. In the book, Freire calls traditional pedagogy the ' banking model of education' because it treats the student as an empty vessel to be filled with knowledge, like a piggy bank. The book is considered one of the foundational texts of critical pedagogy, and proposes a pedagogy with a new relationship between teacher, student, and society.ĭedicated to the oppressed and based on his own experience helping Brazilian adults to read and write, Freire includes a detailed Marxist class analysis in his exploration of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. An English translation was published in 1970, with the Portuguese original being published in 1972 in Portugal, and then again in Brazil in 1974. Pedagogy of the Oppressed ( Portuguese: Pedagogia do Oprimido) is a book by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, written in Portuguese between 19, but published first in Spanish in 1968.

Paulo Freire, the author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Pedagogy of the oppressed book