An Interconnected Glossary of the Key Concepts of Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.”

A few years ago, I worked on a project with an organization called Gathering Ground, where we used Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” as the basis for creating anti-racist capitalist interventions in the “nonprofit industrial complex.” I have since updated the glossary, which includes bolded words that define a concept when that word also appears elsewhere in the glossary. I created this because people complained that Pedagogy was hard to understand and there is so much emphasis on the banking model of education concept explained in the first two chapters that the ideas on themes in chapters 3 & 4 get less attention; as a result, it's hard to keep the book's overall frame in one's mind at one time. Quiet as it's kept, the book is really about collective education and organization to make revolutionary change, not how to be a good classroom teacher. Another objective of the glossary is to show how the ideas in the book connect and reinforce one another overall.