Critical Review: Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Sociology 1
CRITICAL REVIEW: FREIRE’S PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED
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What are the main ideas of Freire’s ’Pedagogy Oppressed’?
Freire’s main ideas are fear of freedom, Dehumanization, Oppression, false
generosity, and social class. Oppression is Oppression of the thinking of any human being
and thus limiting their behavior. The biggest example here being the oppression of woman,
who have been silenced for too long (Eagan, 2010). The societal rules say that the woman is
the property of the father or the husband, and need to work according to their will. Then,
racism, where the people with a certain color or religion need to listen to the others and are
denied basic human laws.
When we think about fear of freedom, we know that with the evolutionary history of
man, its realization of itself has grown too. For what it thought it to be a part of nature, or of
it, it has turned into individualization. Man does not think of himself as nature but uses it a
resource. Similarly, when an individual is born, it thinks of itself as a part of the mother, but
this change, then separation anxiety comes up, and then it starts to think of itself as an
individual (Borelli, 1972).
The ties that bind a human before individualism as called as primary ties, these
restrict freedom but provide security. Like the one you gain from your family. Availability of
food and shelter, and love, but the restriction of freedom.
This gives rise to fear of freedom, putting up questions like what is next? What do I
do when I go out? Where do I get my food from, where do I get to live? The emerging
individualism is a dialectical process, it helps to get rid of these ties, these ties from Fromm
Cells (The Educationist, 2019).