NOT “IS,” BUT “HAS BEEN.” Anyone who tells you “Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed is corrupting our teachers” hasn’t been paying attention. I was assigned this book at UPENN GradEd in 1989-90, in a class ostensibly about the teaching of History in the (swallow your coffee so you don’t spit it out) ELEMENTARY classroom. Our K12 classrooms can be called “Freirian” at this point.
