Conscientização: Learning through Praxis
The ongoing discussion of Freire’s work is insufficient without insight into one of his biggest ideas—conscientização. “The term...
Decoding Generative Narratives: Exploring the Politics of the Text
While Freire’s larger body of work was in philosophy and pedagogy, literacy was the molten center of these larger flames. Freire’s...
The Oppressed and Their Oppressors
In Freire’s educational philosophy and pedagogy, there is a larger issue of social justice which is implicit in his humanistic view. In...
Philosophy of Word and World
(Literacy.org, 2009, December 30) Freire lived and wrote during a time of political chaos, and communal instability. Being in Brazil...
Critical Pedagogy and Literacy: Debunking Banking Education
While Freire was a reading scholar, he also emphasized educational reform. He understood that much of the illiteracy which he saw was a...
