This episode is the start of a miniseries that unpacks Paulo Freire’s (1970) book “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” This particular episode unpacks chapter 1, which discusses how oppressors maintain control over the oppressed. Following unpacking scholarship episodes discuss what this looks like in education and how educators can adopt a “pedagogy of the oppressed” to break cycles of oppression.

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Chapter one

Chapter two

Chapter three

Chapter four

How to Get Started with Computer Science Education

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00:00 Intro

02:15 Humanization and dehumanization

05:12 False charity

07:19 Flipping oppression

12:11 What can we do about oppression?

18:02 Control

22:20 How can we work toward freedom?

22:47 Lingering questions and thoughts

22:55 What are the intersectionalities of oppressor and oppressed?

24:10 When is someone in CS education simultaneously an oppressor and someone who is oppressed?

24:37 Outro