In analyzing the socio-political and economic forces dominating the psychology of the oppressed peasants he studied in Brazil, he shows how cultures of oppression maintained through standard pedagogy, prevented the oppressed from developing a critical consciousness of freedom that would call for their liberation. He forwards the claim that it is imperative for an individual to have an active and engaged role in his or her education, and maintains the assertion that “there is no such thing as a neutral educational process.” Rather to Freire, “Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes ‘the practice of freedom’, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” Freire holds that the decision of how education will function is reflective of political power interests. Freire is a proponent of developing pedagogy that values experiential learning and developing educational processes that allow for active student participation.
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