<P> Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Portuguese: Pedagogia do Oprimido), written by educator Paulo Freire, proposes a pedagogy with a new relationship between teacher, student, and society . It was first published in Portuguese in 1968, and was translated by Myra Ramos into English and published in 1970 . The book is considered one of the foundational texts of critical pedagogy . </P> <P> Dedicated to the oppressed and based on his own experience helping Brazilian adults to read and write, Freire includes a detailed Marxist class analysis in his exploration of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized . </P> <P> In the book Freire calls traditional pedagogy the "banking model of education" because it treats the student as an empty vessel to be filled with knowledge, like a piggy bank . However, he argues for pedagogy to treat the learner as a co-creator of knowledge . </P> <P> The book has sold over 750,000 copies worldwide . </P>

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