Foreword
Introduction
Introductory Reflections
Part I. There is No Teaching Without Learning
Methodological Rigor
Research
Respect for What Students Know
A Capacity to be Critical
Ethics and Aesthetics
Words Incarnated in Example
Risk, Acceptance of What is New, and Rejection of
Discrimination
Chapter 12 Critical Reflection on Practice
Chapter 13 Cultural Identity
Part II. Teaching is Not Transferring Knowledge
Awareness of Our Unfinishedness
Recognition of One's Conditioning
Respect for the Autonomy of the Student
Common Sense
Humility, Tolerance, and Struggle for the Rights of Educators
Capacity to Apprehend Reality
Joy and Hope
Conviction that Change is Possible
Teaching Requires Curiosity
Part III. Teaching is a Human Act
Self-Confidence, Professional Competence and Generosity
Commitment
Education as a Form of Intervention in the World
Freedom and Authority
Decision- Making that is Aware and Conscious
Knowing How to Listen
Recognition that Education is Ideological
Openness to Dialogue
Caring for Students
The late Paulo Freire of Brazil - teacher, philosopher, and activist - is widely regarded as one of the most influential educators of the 20th century. He is the author of more than 20 books, which have been translated and sold widely throughout the world.
Pedagogy of Freedom, Paulo Freire’s last will and testament, is his
best book since Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
*Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center, author of From the Ashes
of the Old: American Labor and America's Future*
Pedagogy of Freedom is a stirring culmination of Paulo Freire’s
life work. It is in no way a conclusion or a summation: it is a
text that urges its readers to become, to reach towards still
untapped possibility. The themes of Freire’s earlier writing are
extended here into thoughtful explorations of ethics and democracy
and the ways in which they may release a sense of agency in the
long exploited and cruelly silenced. Moreover, he has new things to
say about ideology and freedom in a world marked by a threatening
'globalization' and an unprecedented manipulation by media. As
before, he speaks of ‘passion,’ ‘love,’ and ‘caring;’ and, each
time he does so, it is as if his hand grasps each one of our
shoulders, urging us on and on.
*Maxine Greene, Columbia University*
Braiding bold vision with precision, Freire, in his brilliance,
allows us to imagine a tomorrow of democracy and freedom. Insisting
on the 'incompleteness' of us all and on a 'dreamer’s right to
dream,' Pedagogy of Freedom reminds us that our work is never done;
that change is always possible, always essential, always
unfinished.
*Michelle Fine, The Graduate School and University Center, City
University of New York*
With Pedagogy of Freedom, Paulo Freire enriches the dialogical
perspectives with a call for universal ethics that establishes a
better foundation for education in the next century.
*Ramón Flecha, University of Barcelona, Spain*
At the threshold of the twenty-first century, we face the need to
learn a new and more communicative way of constructing educational
theory. With Pedagogy of Freedom, Freire contributes a unique guide
to such a mission. . . . While social sciences are witnessing the
revival of the idea of deliberative democracy (Elster, 1988), as
well as the possibility of transforming social positions through
dialogue (Giddens, 1994), we now have a book that discusses how to
develop such dialogic democracy in education. In Pedagogy of
Freedom, Freire defends a universal human ethic that extends not
only to schools but also to teachers' training.
*Harvard Educational Review*
This book is a repository of Freire's wisdom, the wisdom that
informs his philosophy of education and his educational approach. .
. . I would recommend this one as very important.
*Studies In The Education Of Adults*
Pedagogy of Freedom is almost an elegy. In looping around themes
that have run through his work, Freire's book is a reminder of his
fundamentally optimistic vision of the radical possibilities for
education.
*College English*
Paulo Freire is one of the ideological giants. . . . In this book,
Freire remains passionately idealistic and inspirational, without
denying the complexity of the work or the difficulty of creating
real change. It is one of the rare tomes to which one can return
again and again...
*What On Earth*
Pedagogy of Freedom, Paulo Freire's last will and testament, is his
best book since Pedagogy of the Oppressed. -- Stanley Aronowitz,
CUNY Graduate Center, author of From the Ashes of the Old: American
Labor and America's Future
Pedagogy of Freedom is a stirring culmination of Paulo Freire's
life work. It is in no way a conclusion or a summation: it is a
text that urges its readers to become, to reach towards still
untapped possibility. The themes of Freire's earlier writing are
extended here into thoughtful explorations of ethics and democracy
and the ways in which they may release a sense of agency in the
long exploited and cruelly silenced. Moreover, he has new things to
say about ideology and freedom in a world marked by a threatening
'globalization' and an unprecedented manipulation by media. As
before, he speaks of 'passion,' 'love,' and 'caring;' and, each
time he does so, it is as if his hand grasps each one of our
shoulders, urging us on and on. -- Maxine Greene, Columbia
University
Braiding bold vision with precision, Freire, in his brilliance,
allows us to imagine a tomorrow of democracy and freedom. Insisting
on the 'incompleteness' of us all and on a 'dreamer's right to
dream,' Pedagogy of Freedom reminds us that our work is never done;
that change is always possible, always essential, always
unfinished. -- Michelle Fine, The Graduate School and University
Center, City University of New York
With Pedagogy of Freedom, Paulo Freire enriches the dialogical
perspectives with a call for universal ethics that establishes a
better foundation for education in the next century. -- Ramon
Flecha, University of Barcelona, Spain
At the threshold of the twenty-first century, we face the need to
learn a new and more communicative way of constructing educational
theory. With Pedagogy of Freedom, Freire contributes a unique guide
to such a mission. . . . While social sciences are witnessing the
revival of the idea of deliberative democracy (Elster, 1988), as
well as the possibility of transforming social positions through
dialogue (Giddens, 1994), we now have a book that discusses how to
develop such dialogic democracy in education. In Pedagogy of
Freedom, Freire defends a universal human ethic that extends not
only to schools but also to teachers' training. * Harvard
Educational Review *
This book is a repository of Freire's wisdom, the wisdom that
informs his philosophy of education and his educational approach. .
. . I would recommend this one as very important. * Studies In The
Education Of Adults *
Pedagogy of Freedom is almost an elegy. In looping around themes
that have run through his work, Freire's book is a reminder of his
fundamentally optimistic vision of the radical possibilities for
education. * College English *
Paulo Freire is one of the ideological giants. . . . In this book,
Freire remains passionately idealistic and inspirational, without
denying the complexity of the work or the difficulty of creating
real change. It is one of the rare tomes to which one can return
again and again... * What On Earth *
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