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It was the Brazilian Paulo Freire who developed the most progressive theories of popular education for the liberation and consciousness raising of the oppressed (Freire, 1973; Freire,1977;Wallerstein & Sanchez-Merki,1994). Freire's “popular education” pedagogic methods that reinforce self-assurance and self-determination are applied to health education and communication today.

1. Dialogue is the center of Freire's philosophy. Through dialogue and relationships with others, human beings understand their existence.Every human being is capable of critically engaging in a dialogical encounter with others. He conceived human beings always interconected in a permanent dialogue that becomes the essence of liberation and solidarity. On the contrary,conquest,manipulation,division and cultural invasion are characteristics of the oppression.