Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. "Language is never neutral."
Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire's education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.
Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.
Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed".
In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the "banking method" of education, wherein a teacher "deposits" knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or "bank". Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.
"Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination."
Paulo Freire
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Question: My leftist friend who only just recently started maybe identifying as communist has a book club. They just finished "Why Vegan?" by Peter Singer and now he invited me to join for the last session on that book next week and to bring book suggestions for the next read. The group consists of a mix of liberal to leftish to leftist with an academic background in history. But no marxists, anarchists or MLs. The decision which book to read will be reached by consensus. Which books can I suggest to maximize my chances of effectively radicalizing the most people? And of one of my books being picked at all... And how should I make my case for the book?
It should probably not be too dense or long. Something on Palestine? Something by Lenin? Something from a non-cis/non-male/non-white Marxist? Something against imperialism or for trans/queer liberation? Any input welcome.
People respond to narratives. I feel like The Dispossed has more radicalizing potential than most theory.
To that the grapes of wraith or the jungle are probably stronger but they are too sad
You mean the novel by Ursula LeGuin? I haven't read it yet, but I like her style. I think the group wants a non-fiction book, but I'll put it on my own reading list
Ahh, yeah. If that is the goal throw some Graber on there. Bullshit jobs is good. People's republic of Walmart.