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Philosophize This! · September 12, 2024 · 37m
Episode #210 — The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire)
Paulo Freire's revolutionary pedagogy. Education is never neutral — it either domesticates or liberates. The 'banking model' of education (teacher deposits knowledge into passive students) reproduces oppressive power structures.
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Freire via West: the physical and social structure of a classroom shapes what students learn more than the curriculum does. Rows of desks facing a lectern teach obedience; circles teach dialogue.
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Freire via West: the 'banking model' of education creates false selves — people who define themselves by what authorities have deposited in them. Genuine education (dialogical) allows the true self to emerge through critical consciousness.
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