Pedagogy of the oppressed book5/13/2023 For instance, in one section he writes that ‘the oppressed’ are not fully human. Freire provides no answers to these questions, rather, he continues throughout the book to place supposition upon supposition. The sceptical reader may well wonder exactly what ‘careful analysis’ was done, how this conclusion was reached and what exactly a relationship that is ‘narrative’ in character means. For example, in one passage he says:Ī careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside the school, reveals its fundamentally narrative character. He simply asserts that such and such is the case, and then builds on his assertions. Freire does not present educational research nor talk about the research of others. As someone who places a lot of importance on research to inform my teaching practice I was somewhat alarmed to realise that the entire work is a collection of one man’s opinions about teaching with a few nods to famous political and intellectual figures. The first thing I noticed about the Pedagogy of the Oppressed was that it is entirely conjecture.
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