ABSTRACT
Educators continue to search for a pedagogy that would limit the ability of governments to use schooling as an instrument of control and ideological management. Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997), as I discuss in this chapter, has provided a new philosophical framework for discussing authoritarian and nonauthoritarian education. I believe Freire’s ideas provide an important understanding of the political uses of schooling. However, as I maintain in chapter 12, any nonauthoritarian form of education must include human rights education.
