Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. "Language is never neutral."
Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire's education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.
Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'Γ©tat, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.
Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed".
In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the "banking method" of education, wherein a teacher "deposits" knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or "bank". Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.
"Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination."
Paulo Freire
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If I may ask, I also like Vijay Prashad, but havn't read one of his books yet. So I was thinking of suggesting one to the bookclub. But "The darker nations" seems a bit dense for this and "Washington Bullets" maybe too light? (some reviews mention missing sources). Anything by him or other "global South" authors?
Haven't read Prashad either, but if you want my recommendation, I'm reading How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney! Super approachable.
What's your goal, specifically? I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, feel free to skim through it and see whatever seems good!
Thanks! Your wonderful reading list is why I knew you'd have good recommendations. I've seen it before, and was also a bit intimidated. I'll present this book too. Walter Rodney seems like a name one should know. Like the foreword by Angela Davis. Whatever book isn't picked by the group, I'll add to my own list of books to read.
Thanks, good luck with everything! I'm sure it'll go great!
The reading list shouldn't really be too bad to go through. It's a bit long, but it does ramp up slowly!