Pedagogy of the Oppressor: Experiential Education on the Us/Mexico Border - Paperback

by Jerry H. Gill (Author)

This book represents an effort to explore a pragmatic approach to the education of US citizens about the conditions and status of the US/Mexico border. It is based on those principles set forth in Paulo Freire's book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, wherein he outlines his practiced techniques of educating Third World peoples about their socioeconomic-political situations. Freire's principles have been "inverted" so as to apply to the education of First World people, thereby enabling them to understand and deal with the processes by means of which the First World peoples oppress and manipulate the peoples of the Third World. This pedagogy aims at the liberation of all people, those comprising both the Third and First World countries.

Author Biography

Jerry H. Gill is Professor Emeritus at the College of St. Rose, Albany, New York. He earned his PhD at Duke University in the Philosophy of Religion and has taught for sixty years at numerous colleges around the country, as well as brief stints in Greece and China. Professor Gill has written over 30 books and 150 scholarly journal articles. He now lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife, Mari Sorri.