Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Published 1968 · 1 pages · 55,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Education & Reference, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics & Society
How hard is Pedagogy of the Oppressed to read?
Pedagogy of the Oppressed scores 57 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 48 out of 100
- Marxist, existentialist, and pedagogical terminology.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Highly abstract pedagogical theory.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Dense with theoretical argument.
- Narrative indirection: 12 out of 100
- Systematic philosophical argument.
- Symbolic density: 20 out of 100
- The banking model as central metaphor.
- Ironic distance: 12 out of 100
- Passionate, earnest moral urgency.
- Resolution withholding: 15 out of 100
- Liberation is a process, not an endpoint.
- Structural complexity: 28 out of 100
- Four chapters building a coherent pedagogical philosophy.
How Pedagogy of the Oppressed is regarded
Pedagogy of the Oppressed holds a literary regard score of 72 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.