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A Study of Paulo Freire’s Learning

The purpose of this study was to investigate Paulo Freire’s learning conception. Paulo Freire’ learning conception was different from many learning conceptions in modern educational theories which view the relation of learning and teaching as hierarchial. Paul Freire perceived that 1) teaching was a part of fabrics of learning, 2) there was no teaching without teachers’ and learners’ learning, and 3) the relation of learning and teaching was dialectic. This conception was based on Paulo Freire’s epistemology that human was a cultural, historical and unfinished being, had simultaneously awareness of our unfinishedness, and thereon was being to learn permanently. The starting point of learning was a respect for learners’ identity which was exposed by their words, especially their generative words and themes.