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Paulo Freire's Prophetic Vision for Education

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The Resistance Intellectuals and the Theory Practice Relationship

Freire has fashioned a theory of cultural power and production that begins with the notion of popular education instead of beginning with abstract generalities about human nature. He rightly argues for the pedagogical principles that arise from the concrete practices that constitute the terrains on which people live out their problems hopes and everyday experiences. This suggests taking seriously the cultural capital of the oppressed developing critical and analytical tools to interrogate it so we can analyze them for their usefulness or ways in which they bear the logic of domination. Next section is resistant intellectuals and the theory practice relationship.

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