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Sep 2024
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Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Opp...

STEPHEN WEST
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We talk about Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. His critique of the banking model of education. The importance of critical consciousness. His Existentialist influence. The dialectic between oppression and liberation. The problem-posing model of education. The role of dialogue in learning and the co-creation of knowledge. Marx's influence on Freire. T ... Show More
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