Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed: How it Affects Us Now Evelyn Austin College

Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed: How is Affects Us Now

Paulo Freire was a Brazilian philosopher who focused on the art of teaching and creating literacy for the lower-class socioeconomic groups among his people and the world of education through his humanist works. Freire’s central literature, ‘The Pedagogy of the Oppressed,’ fixated on several themes in the public, working education system such as “...how the oppressed and the oppressors are affected by the act of oppression, that liberation is a mutual process, the banking model of education, the incompleteness of human beings, generative themes and the use of cooperation, and unity and organization to liberate the oppressed” (Diaz, 2020). In his book, oppression to Freire was the discombobulation of teaching methodology due to the mainstream classroom constructed around the teacher’s dialogue rather than the student’s needs (71). While Freire scripted his work half a century ago, his theme of oppression is still relevant today.

The socioeconomic crisis and unbalance of education opportunity from Karl Marx’s bourgeoise versus proletariat struggle is a current disaster in the American education system because of the isolation and segregation of groups produced by the...