7/7/2023 0 Comments Freire pedagogy![]() ![]() ![]() He envisioned a participatory form of education.Īs Henry Giroux, a disciple of Critical Pedagogy explains:įor Freire, pedagogy is not a method or an a priori technique to be imposed on all students but a political and moral practice that provides the knowledge, skills, and social relations that enable students to explore the possibilities of what it means to be critical citizens while expanding and deepening their participation in the promise of a substantive democracy.Ĭritical thinking for Freire was not an object lesson in test-taking, but a tool for self-determination and civic engagement. Freire believed that the traditional education system, with the teacher as the “sage on the stage,” was designed to produce workers to support the capitalist system, and perpetuate the oppression of the working class. Critical Pedagogy is a critical theory created by Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, and author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. ![]()
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