“Underlying Freire’s politics of hope was a view of radical pedagogy that located itself on the dividing lines where the…

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“Underlying Freire’s politics of hope was a view of radical pedagogy that located itself on the dividing lines where the relations between domination and oppression, power and powerlessness, continued to be produced and reproduced. For Freire, hope as a defining element of politics and pedagogy always meant listening to and working with the poor and other subordinate groups so that they might speak and act in order to alter dominant relations of power.”

Henry Giroux, On Critical Pedagogy (2011)