Get From A Pedagogy For Liberation To Liberation From Pedagogy

Originally coined by Paolo Freire, leading advocate of critical pedagogy and Brazilian educator, liberation pedagogy is an anti-oppressive educational approach designed to liberate minds and level the playing fields between teachers and students.

Freire defines oppression as an act of exploitation, violence, and a failure to recognize others as persons. Not only do oppressors commit violence against the oppressed by keeping them from being fully human, they often stereotype oppressed people as violent for responding to oppression.

Liberationism is a pedagogy that, as its name might suggest, is all about liberating learners through education. ... He firmly believed that students should have ultimate control over learning, especially those in poverty, so they can create their own 'emancipation through education'.

The five major approaches are Constructivist, Collaborative, Integrative, Reflective and Inquiry Based Learning ( 2C-2I-1R ).

"Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it." Paulo Freire. Paulo Freire opposes what he calls the "banking"-education, the traditional western education where you treat minds like piggy banks, filling up an empty container until it is full and ready.

Freire's three major points in chapter 1 begin with the concept of humanization and dehumanization. Humanity is what makes humans who they are. Freedom is an example of an aspect of humanization that contributes to how people grow as human beings.

Two Stages of Pedagogy of Oppressed (1) Actual liberation of the oppressed: Practical structural changes that have an immediate affect on oppressed. (2) Deep structural changes to society: expulsion of "myths created and developed in the old [oppressive] order".

Freire's pedagogical model aims to liberate human beings, enabling us to help build a world in which it is easier to work together and care for one another. Education at its best is a process of discovery, where learners and educators collaborate to develop and test different ways of understanding and acting.

Using Freire's methods, educators and participants (students) teach each other through respectful dialogue. All viewpoints are respected equally, and everyone learns at the same pace. This new method of education humanizes students and prepares them to fight for liberation from oppression.