Emancipatory pedagogy is an approach to teaching that aims to free learners from oppressive social, political, or economic conditions by developing their critical awareness of those conditions and their capacity to act to change them, rather than simply transmitting existing knowledge or preparing students to accept the status quo. It draws heavily on the critical pedagogy tradition associated with Paulo Freire, who argued that education should be a practice of freedom conducted through dialogue between teacher and student rather than the one-way transmission of a fixed body of knowledge. The approach has influenced adult literacy programs, feminist pedagogy, and critical multicultural education focused on empowering historically marginalized learners. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ClaimEducation that liberates learners from oppression that limits their choices and control over their lives 1 Connections
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Emancipatory pedagogy is a philosophy of education and practice that emphasizes liberating learners from any form of oppression that could limit their choices and control over their lives.
Emancipatory pedagogy (Wikipedia)
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In the 1960s, the German pedagogical theorist Klaus Mollenhauer published Erziehung und Emanzipation (Education and Emancipation) which situated what he called emancipatory pedagogy in the tradition of the Frankfurt school
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