The struggle for liberation is a struggle to reclaim our humanity. He also cautions against the dangers of sectarianism, which can undermine the revolutionary purpose as well as serve as a refuge for the committed conservative. He addresses the “fear of freedom,” which inhibits the oppressed from assuming this responsibility. Pedagogy of the Oppressed begins with a preface in which Freire asserts the importance of consciousness-raising, or conscientização, as the means enabling the oppressed to recognize their oppression and commit to the effort to overcome it, taking full responsibility for themselves in the struggle for liberation. His efforts at educational and political reform resulted in a brief period of imprisonment followed exile from his native Brazil for fifteen years. Freire’s own commitment to this struggle developed through years of teaching literacy to Brazilian and Chilean peasants and laborers. The theories of education and revolutionary action he offers in Pedagogy of the Oppressed are addressed to a radical audience committed to the struggle for liberation from oppression. For Freire, education is political and functions either to preserve the current social order or to transform it.
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