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Book SynopsisFamous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals. For Freire, man's striving for his own humanity requires the changing of structures which dehumanize both the oppressor and the oppressed. This edition includes a substantial new introduction by Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA, USA. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos.
Trade ReviewFreire combines a compassion for the wretched of the earth with an intellectual and practical confidence and personal humility... Most of all he has a vision of man. * Times Higher Educational Supplement *
Table of ContentsEducation for Critical Consciousness and Deliberative Democracy: A Critical Reading of Paulo Freire’s Hermeneutic Contributions,
Introduction by Carlos Alberto Torres, 2021 Introduction by Denis Goulet, 1973 Preface by Jacques Chonchol, 1968
Part I: Education as the Practice of Freedom 1. Society in Transition 2. Closed Society and Democratic Inexperience 3. Education versus Massification 4. Education and Conscientização 5. Postscript 6. Appendix
Part II: Extension or Communication Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III
