The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.
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Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as its permanent re-creators.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Education is a collaborative process where both teachers and students contribute to understanding and reshaping knowledge.
In this quote, Paulo Freire emphasizes the interactive and participatory nature of education, positioning both teachers and students as active agents in the learning process. He suggests that through shared reflection and action, they not only uncover reality but also continuously reshape and recreate their understanding of it, highlighting the dynamic relationship between knowledge and those who seek it.
Themes
EducationCollaborationLearningKnowledgeTeachersStudents
In practice
Example use cases
In a workshop on educational practices, one could say, 'As Paulo Freire reminds us, education is a joint venture between teachers and students.'
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Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.
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This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.
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This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade
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The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.
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