The pedagogical approach that treats education as a route to critical awareness, linked to Paulo Freire, involving questions about whose voices are missing from sources, and using project work and structured discussion.
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Central QuestionDoes education treat the learner as a passive recipient of deposited knowledge, or as an active partner in dialogue? 1 Most Effective ForWork with marginalized and oppressed populations, building critical consciousness and agency through dialogue rather than one-way instruction. 1 Liberationism
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Ivan Illich, Thinkers Illich's Deschooling Society (1971) became foundational to the liberationist and deschooling movements in education, per Illich's own live entity-description.
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Source Wikipedia: Abolitionist Teaching
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Freire's work is the founding line of the liberationist approach.
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Source Paulo Freire (Wikipedia)
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Source Wikipedia: Problem-posing education
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1. infed, the encyclopedia of pedagogy and informal education
Paulo Freire, dialogue praxis and education page
Too much education, Paulo Freire argues, involves 'banking', the educator making 'deposits' in the educatee.
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has been particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the oppressed
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treats education as a route to critical awareness
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In the realm of critical pedagogy, Freire demanded that educators do far more than transmit knowledge; they must ignite a fire of critical consciousness in students
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His radical critique became foundational to liberationist and deschooling movements in education.
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Critical Pedagogy is believed to have its roots in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, which was established in 1923.
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proposes a pedagogy with a new relationship between teacher, student, and society
View the Source Paulo Freire (Wikipedia)
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He is best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in which he reimagines teaching as a political act of liberation rather than critical cultural transmission of values.
Henry Giroux (Wikipedia)
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One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.
Peter McLaren (Wikipedia)
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Peter McLaren (born 2 August 1948) is a Canadian-American scholar and is known as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy.
Wikipedia: Problem-posing education
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Problem-posing education, coined by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in his 1970 book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, is a method of teaching that emphasizes critical thinking for the purpose of liberation.
Emancipatory pedagogy (Wikipedia)
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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.
Anti-oppressive education (Wikipedia)
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Anti-oppressive education encompasses multiple approaches to learning that actively challenge forms of oppression.
Wikipedia: Abolitionist Teaching
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Abolitionist teaching, also known as abolitionist pedagogy, is a set of practices and approaches to teaching that emphasize abolishing educational practices considered by its proponents to be inherently problematic and oppressive.
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What does Paulo Freire mean by 'banking education'?
Freire used 'banking' to describe conventional teaching where the educator deposits information into passive students, which liberationism rejects in favor of dialogue between teacher and learner.
Paulo Freire argued that too much education works like banking: the educator makes deposits of information for students to passively receive, memorize and repeat, treating them as empty accounts rather than active participants. Liberationism rejects this model, replacing it with dialogue in which teacher and learner question the world together, which is why liberationism's own central question asks whether the learner is a passive recipient of deposited knowledge or an active partner in dialogue.
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