Searches for Liberatory Education: the Village Institutes and the Critical Pedagogy School

This study aims to examine the understanding of pedagogy, which was put into practice in the village institutes as an example of liberatory education, associating it with the critical pedagogy. in the study, it is argued that these two understandings of pedagogy have parallelisms in terms of their emphasis on the unity of intellectual and practical activities, their egalitarian and democratic approach, and the “transformative” and “temporary” role attributed to the intellectual with the objective of eliminating the separation between the people and the intellectuals.