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Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter
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January 1993

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... Freire's notion of pedagogy was not only egalitarian, it took matters of history, contexts, and the voices of the oppressed as a starting point for a liberatory pedagogy. (McLaren and Leonard 1993) Freire's early work in Brazil's rural Northeast region exemplified his belief in the capacity of semi-literate people to possess meaningful knowledge, rather than be trained in methods. Rejecting an unquestioning notion of teacher authority, he developed a model where the teacher was not an authoritarian figure but a coinvestigator alongside students. ...

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Paulo Freire’s legacy and critical pedagogy in dark times
Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter