This compass is both an approach to education and organizing and a lens through which to understand systems of oppression in order to transform them. Over a lifetime of working with revolutionary organizers and educators both in exile and back in Brazil, Freire offers a compass to direct us towards liberation from structures of oppression. This approach, developed as much by Freire as the workers he educated, was so galvanizing that he was jailed and exiled by the Military Government within two years.
Each with the purpose of not just literacy, but conscientization, or which involves people joining with their peers to name their world by reflecting on their conditions, imagining a better world, and then taking action to create it. These Culture Circles that began with Sugar Cane workers, catalyzed thousands more. In 1962, Paulo Freire created culture circles in Northeastern Brazil to support 300 suger-cane workers to teach each other how to read the word and their world in 45 days, which enabled them to register to vote. Not just the title of a book by Paulo Freire, a Pedagogy of the Oppressed is an approach to education and organizing to transform oppressive structures and create a more equitable, caring and beautiful world through action and reflection that is co-created with those who have been marginalized and dehumanized. Because so much of Practicing Freedom's work is inspired by it, I thought I repost the mini-chapter here: I'd love feedback! I originally wrote this for the forthcoming book, Beautiful Trouble.
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