TY - BOOK AU - Freire,Paulo TI - Pedagogy of the oppressed T2 - Penguin education SN - 9780140254037 (pbk. : alk. paper) : U1 - 370.115 FRE 23 PY - 1993/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Freire, Paulo. KW - Education KW - Philosophy KW - Popular education KW - Critical pedagogy N1 - Translation of: Pedagogia del oprimido; Includes bibliographical references N2 - Foreword /​ Richard Shaull Ch. 1. The justification for a pedagogy of the oppressed; the contradiction between the oppressors and the oppressed, and how it is overcome; oppression and the oppressors; oppression and the oppressed; liberation: not a gift, not a self-achievement, but a mutual process. Ch. 2. The "banking" concept of education as an instrument of oppression - its presuppositions - a critique; the problem-posing concept of education as an instrument for liberation - its presuppositions; the "banking" concept and the teacher-student contradiction; the problem-posing concept and the supersedence of the teacher-student contradiction; education: a mutual process, world-mediated; people as uncompleted beings, conscious of their incompletion, and their attempt to be more fully human. Ch. 3. Dialogics - the essence of education as the practice of freedom; dialogics and dialogue; dialogue and the search for program content; the human-world relationship, "generative themes," and the program content of education as the practice of freedom; the investigation of "generative themes" and its methodology; the awakening of critical consciousness through the investigation of "generative themes"; the various stages of the investigation. Ch. 4. Antidialogics and dialogics as matrices of opposing theories of cultural action: the former as an instrument of oppression and the latter as an instrument of liberation; the theory of antidialogical action and its characteristics: conquest, divide and rule, manipulation, and cultural invasion; the theory of dialogical action and its characteristics: cooperation, unity, organization, and cultural synthesis UR - http://openisbn.com/isbn/014025403X/ ER -