‘Teachers must be revolutionary-that is to say dialogical, from the outset’ (Freire, 1970:74). Paulo Freire, one of the most important theorists of radical education reform in the 20th century introduced the concept of Dialogue with the aim of getting teachers and pupils to research together. Freire defined Dialogue as the ‘encounter between people, mediated by the world in which they live in (e.g. school, home, community) in order to name the world’ (Freire, 1970:76). Dialogue is central to our humanity but is one of the most problematic things in the world to achieve. To enter into dialogue presupposes equality between participants. Each person must trust the other; there must be love and mutual respect. In the classroom environment the teacher learns from the student and the student learns from the educator in the process of dialogue. Teachers help the development of a process in which the educators and the learners can learn together (Mayo, 2011).
3.2 Childhood
The recognition that there may be different ways of being a child and different kinds of childhood is important to the development of contemporary
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Equality can be defined as ‘equality of condition’ which is a belief that an individual should be as equal as possible in relation to the conditions in which they live and ensuring that everyone has equal prospects for a good life. Some of the main dimensions of equality include love, power, solidarity, care and respect. There have been number of equality problems in education. According to Connell (1993) power and status have been identified as debates in equality of education along with the failure of education strategies for the support of socio-economic equality in different countries (Breen, Heath and Whelan, 1999;Clancy, 2001; Erikson and Jonsson, 1996, Euriat and Thelot, 1995; Shavit and lossfeld,