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1. The justification for a pedagogy of the oppressed ;
the contradiction between the oppressors and the oppressed, and how it is overcome ;
oppression and the oppressors ;
oppression and the oppressed ;
liberation :
not a gift,
not a self-achievement, but a mutual process
2. The "banking" concept of education as an instrument of oppression--its presuppositions--a critique ;
the problem-posing concept of education as an instrument for liberation--its presuppositions ;
the "banking" concept and the teacher-student contradiction ;
the problem-posing concept and the supersedence of the teacher-student contradiction ;
education : a mutual process, world-mediated ;
people as uncompleted beings, conscious of their incompletion, and their attempt to be more fully human;
3. Dialogics--the essence of education as the practice of freedom ;
dialogics and dialogue ;
dialogue and the search for program content ;
the human-world relationship, "generative themes," and the program content of education as the practice of freedom ;
the investigation of "generative themes" and its methodology ;
the awakening of critical consciousness through the investigation of "generative themes" ;
the various stages of the investigation;
4. Antidialogics and dialogics as matrices of opposing theories of cultural action : the former as an instrument of oppression and the latter as an instrument of liberation ;
the theory of antidialogical action and its characteristics : conquest, divide and rule, manipulation, and cultural invasion ;
the theory of dialogical action and its characteristics : cooperation, unity, organization, and cultural synthesis.
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