Qallunology: A Pedagogy for the Oppressor

Abstract

Education and economics have been the two main "life-preservers"--tools of "development," forced upon Indigenous populations by their White "rescuers," with disastrous results. Freire's pedagogy of the oppressed, although seeking to empower, is also culturally damaging. A "pedagogy of the oppressor" would awaken Euro-Americans' awareness of the destructive impact of their own cultural values.