Response to Pedagogy of the Oppressed

This weeks reading was very different from anything I've ever read before that could apply to education. Some portions of it were kind of confusing, but for the most part, it was very insightful. At first, I thought it really applied to people in poverty and countries with over controlling governments. I think it applied to impoverished people because poverty is a very difficult cycle to break apart from and more often than not, there is a government or wealthy population that has forced people of lower status into molds where they can be oppressed and controlled by people who have more than them. Also, the article described victims of oppression as thinking they deserve that treatment and are unaware of how badly they are being treated because they have learned to identify with the oppressor. On a different note, that last sentence also to me described Stockholm Syndrome and how it is a real phenomenon.

I think that the article really related to people in poverty and that in turn directly relates to education because poverty is a real issue in our education system. Oppression directly relates to education because there are thousands of students who are in a cycle of oppression with little roads to get out of it. Minorities and students of poverty are daily oppressed because they have few outlets for bettering themselves and people who look down upon them verbally speak against them being able to better themselves.

During our class discussion, I hope to have a better idea of how oppression applies to education and the processes we as future teachers can go through to try and fix the cycle of oppression that is evident in our country and education system.