Popular education

Popular education is an educational philosophy and practice, most closely associated with Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, that treats education as a tool for raising the political and social consciousness of oppressed or marginalized communities and for organizing collective action toward social change, rather than as a neutral transfer of information. It typically takes place outside formal school systems, in community settings, and emphasizes dialogue between educator and learner as co-investigators of their shared reality, in contrast to what Freire criticized as a banking model of education in which a teacher simply deposits knowledge into a passive student. The tradition has influenced adult literacy campaigns, community organizing, and critical pedagogy movements across Latin America and beyond. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/