Freire treated poor people’s everyday language as a subject worthy of rigorous study
Evidence
My experience with them [poor rural families] helped me to get used to a different way of thinking and expressing myself. This was the grammar of the people, the language of the people, and as an educator of the people I devote myself today to the rigorous understanding of this language. (p. 7) Freire’s determination to help the oppressed gain freedom remained with him throughout his life and fueled his activism. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 581
Categorization
- DEFINE: Names the concept anchoring Freire’s method: valuing vernacular speech as serious knowledge.
- SHARE: Send to anyone into liberatory pedagogy or Freire specifically — it’s the cleanest statement of his intellectual posture in this chapter.
- XREF: connects to: Freire’s pedagogy grew directly from his own experience of poverty and hunger — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 580
Broader Connections
- Freire’s pedagogy grew directly from his own experience of poverty and hunger
#corroborates(0.78) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 580