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Role of Education
- Liberation
- Participation in historical process
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Supporting people to
- Perceive
- Interpret
- Criticise
- Transform world around them
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Sense of
- Purpose
- Identity
- Dialogue leading to action
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Liberation Struggle: Humanisation
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Dehumanisation
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Oppressor class too dehumanised
- Thrived on dehumanisation of the oppressed
- Lovelessness, false generosity
- Rulers
- Believe in myths of the ignorance of the people
- Unjust & exploitative social order
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Carried out by the oppressed
- Committed involvement
- Solidarity
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Acquired by positive, creative action
- Constantly & responsibly
- Act of love
- Revolutionary transformation of reality
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Inherent dangers
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Oppressed want to be like oppressors
- Have more
- Internalisation of image of oppressor
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Process of becoming
- Overcoming limit situations by limit acts
- Critically reflecting & acting upon their existence - more they will achieve their humanity
- Feeling of needs > causes of needs
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Is dynamic/a process
- Humanist (subjective) not objective
- With and not for the people
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Through educational projects
- Oppressors control systemic education
- Co-investigators
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Revolutionary leadership
- Critical & liberating permanent dialogue
- No room for manipulation, sloganisation, laying down rules etc
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Co-intentional education
- Jointly inventing reality
- Ever & always trust the people
- Critical knowledge to strengthen & nourish that knowledge of reality that the people have required through daily experience
- Problem-posing
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Meaningful themes
- Domination & liberation
- Epochs
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Consciousness
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Ideational capacity
- Capacity for forming ideas about what it seeks to understand
- Conscientization
- Intentionality
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Praxis
- Reflection <> Action
- Seek to transform through praxis
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Dialogue
- Engage in critical thinking
- Creative action
- Courage
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Hope
- Uncompleteness of human beings
- Generating acts of freedom
- Based on profound love
- Not means of domination
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Dialogical
- Conquest
- Divide & rule
- Manipulation
- Cultural invasion
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Anti-dialogical
- Co-operation
- Unity for liberation
- Authentic organisation
- Cultural synthesis