Pedagogy of the oppressed
P Freire - Toward a sociology of education, 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Toward a sociology of education, 2020•api.taylorfrancis.com
A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside the
school, reveals its fundamentally narrative charac ter. This relationship involves a narrating
subject (the teacher) and patient, listening objects (the students). The contents, whether
values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process of being nar rated to become
lifeless and petrified. Education is suffering from narration sickness. The teacher talks about
reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable. Or else he …
school, reveals its fundamentally narrative charac ter. This relationship involves a narrating
subject (the teacher) and patient, listening objects (the students). The contents, whether
values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process of being nar rated to become
lifeless and petrified. Education is suffering from narration sickness. The teacher talks about
reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable. Or else he …
A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside the school, reveals its fundamentally narrative charac ter. This relationship involves a narrating subject (the teacher) and patient, listening objects (the students). The contents, whether values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process of being nar rated to become lifeless and petrified. Education is suffering from narration sickness.
The teacher talks about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable. Or else he expounds on a topic completely alien to the existential experience of the students. His task is to'fill'the students with the contents of his narration-contents which are detached from reality, disconnected from the totality that engendered them and could give them significance. Words are emptied of their concreteness and become a hollow, alienated, and alienating verbosity.
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