Paulo Freire's collection of essays developing the political dimensions of his educational philosophy — arguing that there is no neutral education and that all pedagogy is either domesticating or liberating.
The neutrality impossibility: Freire argues that every educational choice — what to teach, how to teach, what counts as knowledge, whose experience is valued — reflects a political position. There is no neutral pedagogy. This framework (that education is always already political) became the intellectual foundation for critical pedagogy's explicit political commitment.
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