Midterm Exam on Pedagogy of the Opressed by Paulo Freire and Punished by Victor M Rios

The midterm examination consists of 3 essay questions. As you move through all prompts, focus on generating high quality, descriptive responses. As a general reference, a midterm response should be no less than 4 double-spaced pages. You may answer through direct or “in your own words” theoretical notation (description of idea), exemplification (demonstration of idea), or with both methods. This is an open book and open notes test. Only when citing direct passages, you are to provide complete in-text citations and a reference page.
1. Core Identification: As noted by Rios and Freire, state and describe how oppression is
designed, organized, and materialized through educational institutions, normative
practice, and cultural production. As both authors are distinct, name what each author
enunciates as leading structural/cultural causes of oppression. Be conceptually clear.
2. Comparative & Connection: In a concise and detailed manner, articulate how Rios’
project expands and exemplifies the call for revisionist critical education theory as found
within Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
3. Speculative Theorizing: Applying Freirean revisionist critical educational theory and
Rios’ call for a youth support complex, create your own schooling project. —Stated
differently, directly utilizing Freire and Rios’ theoretical work, design a schooling
system. Be creative, think non-defaultively, and lay claims and reason for your schooling
project. Rios and Freire’s ideas should be re-presentated and re-formed clearly through
this speculative schooling project.
Links to both of the books will be provided and there is to be zero plagiarism or AI used for this assignment.