Reimagining Leisure Education Through Freire: A Comprehensive Guide

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dc.contributor.authorBELLO Muhinat Bolanle
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-19T20:54:47Z
dc.date.available2026-09-19T20:54:47Z
dc.date.issued2026-07
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a transformative framework for leisure and recreation education. Traditional pedagogical approaches in leisure studies remain rooted in hierarchical, banking models that reinforce systemic oppression, including Whiteness, monoculturalism, and exclusion. Drawing on Freire's concepts of critical consciousness, dialogical action, and problem-posing education, we argue that leisure educators must move beyond performative inclusion toward genuinely liberatory practices. We analyse how current pedagogies perpetuate oppression through White Institutional Presence and anti-dialogical actions such as conquest, divide and rule, manipulation, and cultural invasion. We then demonstrate how Freirean dialogical actions, cooperation, unity,organisation, and cultural synthesis can address these inequities through cocreation,praxis, and decolonised pedagogy. Practical strategies include codesigned syllabi, community-engaged projects, and integration of Indigenous knowledge systems. By cultivating critical consciousness and embedding dialogical action, leisure educators can position education as a practice of freedom, challenging dominant ideologies and creating more inclusive, just learning environments.
dc.identifier.isbn978-978-63846-3-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.54908/iljs.cisp2026.10.01.014
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/18971
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCentre for Internationalisation and Strategic Partnership (CISP), University of Ilorin, Nigeria
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCHAPTER FOURTEEN; 234-247
dc.subjectCritical Pedagogy
dc.subjectFreirean Dialogical Action
dc.subjectLeisure Studies
dc.subjectWhiteness and Praxis
dc.titleReimagining Leisure Education Through Freire: A Comprehensive Guide
dc.typeBook

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