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Liberating Praxis Paulo Freire's Legacy for Radical Education and Politics
Peter Mayo
ISBN: 0-89789-786-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-786-0
192 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2004
List Price: $82.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • 2005 AESA CRITICS' CHOICE AWARD WINNER
Description: This volume provides a holistic study of the work of Paulo Freire. It is a comprehensive review of Freire's ideas against the context from which they emerged. It provides a broad reading of Freire including the posthumous publication of a number of his remaining works into English. It draws connections between his work and a number of the figures with whom he is identified, as well as his experiences as an educator and consultant.

This book provides a broad and varied international perspective to the work (including posthumous works recently translated into English) and life of Paulo Freire. It clarifies how his ideas emerged at different stages of his development as a social thinker. In addition it provides insight into others associated with Freire, e.g., Julius Nyerere.

It allows students of Freire's work's to access the appropriate background material and discussion to place Freire's work in the context of his many writings. Freire's groundbreaking work with adults in the developing world with their legacy of colonialization changed the conversation of how best to teach literacy and other basic skills to previously unschooled adults. His consideration of the effects of colonialism, migration, and racism are of particular and pressing import today.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Paulo Freire--The Educator, His Oeuvre, and His Changing Contexts
    Holistic Interpretations of Freire's Work: A Critical Review
    Critical Literacy, Praxis, and Emancipatory Politics
    "Remaining on the Same Side of the River" Neo-liberalism, Party, Movements, and the Struggle for Greater Coherence
    Reinventing Freire in a Southern Context: The Mediterranean
    Engaging with Practice: A Freirean Reflection on Different Pedagogical Sites
About the Author: PETER MAYO is Associate Professor, Education, University of Malta. He is co-editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Education and the author of several books and articles concerning the work of Paulo Freire, Antonio Gramsci, and other works on adult education.
LCC Class: 370
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