Jun 18, 2026 · 38 min · 9 segments
Paulo Freire’s book, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed is overviewed by Dr. Beverly Yuen Thompson in this video. His four chapters focusing on the Oppressor-Oppressed social context; the banking model of…
Beverly Yuen ThompsonHostAnd so that and the Great Depression plunged his family into a state of poverty.
And so he grew up playing stickball with the local children and he fell behind in his own education.
so later on when he was in his 20s his family's fortune did turn around he was able to enter law school and he began to study the philosophy of language and phenomenology and did get his law degree but didn't end up actually practicing law he instead became a teacher and had various appointments within the government or within the university system in which he could apply his theory of education.
And so he is the author of this book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which he wrote.
He became really committed to a liberatory style of education, which is outlined in his book, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
And after the significant acclaim that his book received, as well as the blowback from different apartheid governments, the book was banned in South Africa, certain military governments banned the book and indeed in 1964 during the Brazilian coup he was arrested first and imprisoned and then lived in political exile and even was to get a one-year visiting professorship at Harvard but he previously wrote a book on freedom and education and so this was a subsequent follow-up to his previous book But he is considered one of the significant members of the critical pedagogy discipline, and especially that came forth in the 1970s.
And of course, this is within a context of global decolonization projects.
And so that and the Great Depression plunged his family into a state of poverty.
And so he grew up playing stickball with the local children and he fell behind in his own education.
so later on when he was in his 20s his family's fortune did turn around he was able to enter law school and he began to study the philosophy of language and phenomenology and did get his law degree but didn't end up actually practicing law he instead became a teacher and had various appointments within the government or within the university system in which he could apply his theory of education.
And so he is the author of this book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which he wrote.
He became really committed to a liberatory style of education, which is outlined in his book, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
And after the significant acclaim that his book received, as well as the blowback from different apartheid governments, the book was banned in South Africa, certain military governments banned the book and indeed in 1964 during the Brazilian coup he was arrested first and imprisoned and then lived in political exile and even was to get a one-year visiting professorship at Harvard but he previously wrote a book on freedom and education and so this was a subsequent follow-up to his previous book But he is considered one of the significant members of the critical pedagogy discipline, and especially that came forth in the 1970s.
And of course, this is within a context of global decolonization projects.
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