Dialogue-based pedagogy must express the students’ own consciousness

Evidence

The struggle begins with men’s recognition that they have been destroyed. Propaganda, management, manipulation—all arms of domination—cannot be the instruments of their rehumanization. The only effective instrument is a humanizing pedagogy in which the revolutionary leadership establishes a permanent relationship of dialogue with the oppressed. In a humanizing pedagogy the method ceases to be an instrument by which the teachers (in this instance, the revolutionary leadership) can manipulate the students (in this instance, the oppressed), because it expresses the consciousness of the students themselves. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 175

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete criterion for the redesign: the method must express learner consciousness, not the facilitator’s predetermined content. — connects to: Dialogical spaces let incarcerated students reconstruct identity positions and worldviews — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 393; Adaptive pedagogy rooted in students’ actual needs characterizes Freirean practice — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1316; Engaged pedagogy uniquely requires teacher self-actualization before student empowerment — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 42 (+5 more)