Freire defined liberatory education as mobilizing people to win power

Evidence

Culture wars require tools for resistance. This book is one such tool. It draws on Paulo Freire’s defiant dreaming to resist dehumanizing rhetoric and government. When we dream like Paulo, we prepare ourselves to build a world less hateful and less violent, more just, more equal, and more humane. As Paulo proposed, “Liberatory education must be understood as a practice where we challenge the people to mobilize or organize themselves to get power.” (A Pedagogy for Liberation, 1987, p. 34). The coming chapters challenge us to build the power needed by the party of hope. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 55

Categorization

• DEFINE: Offers a concise working definition of Freire’s liberatory education as mobilization for power rather than mere instruction.
• XREF: Plausibly connects to the reader’s existing work on ritual meaning, self-help as control, and education as a site of political formation. — connects to: Freire located revolutionary practice in teachers interrogating their own authority — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 723; Freire’s work gave oppressed US students a political language for their resistance

Broader Connections

• Freire located revolutionary practice in teachers interrogating their own authority #expands (0.80) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 723