Having established what Freirean education is, we’re going to begin to transition into why it is employed and then how it works (insofar as it does work, i.e., for conscientization). We’ll begin by clarifying that Freire sees education as an intrinsically political phenomenon upon which one must take a side. This framing isn’t a mere question of values, as discussed previously, but a question of the entire concept of man and the world that inform values-driven education. For Freire, there is only one legitimate side: Dialectical Leftism, which he equates with the pursuit of liberation through
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