How long does it take to read Education For Critical Consciousness?
Paulo Freire, Freire
Education For Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire, Freire takes about 3 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours
A weekend read
First published 1967. 164 pages, about 45,100 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Famous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals. For Freire, man's striving for his own humanity requires the changing of structures which dehumanize both the oppressor and the oppressed"--
Subjects: Educational sociology, Critical pedagogy, Liberty, Education, latin america, Education, Fundamental education
