This literary guide will support your engagement with Chapter One, which focuses on, “the justification of the pedagogy of the oppressed; the contradiction between the oppressors and the oppressed, and how it is to overcome; oppression and the oppressors; oppression and the oppressed; liberation: not a gift, a self - achievement, but mutual process” (Freire, 1968).
His work considers the global population of the oppressed and garners insight from various critical thinkers.