Written in exile after Brazil's 1964 coup, Freire's classic attacks the "banking" model of education, in which teachers deposit facts into passive students, and proposes instead a dialogical method in which teacher and student learn together through problem-posing and reflection on their real conditions. Its concepts — conscientization, praxis, and education as the practice of freedom — grew out of Freire's literacy work among Brazilian peasants. The book became one of the most influential works on education of the twentieth century.
Author: Paulo Freire · Original publisher: Paz e Terra, Rio de Janeiro, 1968 (Portuguese original, *Pedagogia do Oprimido*); first English edition: Herder and Herder, New York, 1970, translated by Myra Bergman Ramos
