Freire’s radical is unafraid to see the world unveiled, or to meet the common person and listen to their reality. The radical cannot remain passive in the face of the oppressor’s violence, because of their commitment to human liberation. It could be that society denies one full participation in its advantages, but without the ability to think critically, education cannot be used to subvert this inequality.įreire explicitly dedicates his text to the radical, for he is aware that it will not gratify the oppressors for the victims of oppression to recognise themselves as such. Without literacy, it is nigh impossible to come to an awareness of selfhood which allows one to analyse the social situation in which one exists, and transform it. He doffs his hat to Fanon by revisiting the groundwork that the French Martinique native laid down regarding the colonial apparatus, then specifies his own focus: education. The Brazilian attempts to conscientise the oppressed in the South American context of the 1970s, with the same vigour with which Fanon addresses Africans in the early 60s. Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed is often cited as a companion text to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth.
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