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Paulo Freire is indisputably a major thinker in education. Daniel Schugurensky's volume offers the most coherent account of Freire's educational thought. This work is divided into:Freire's Intellectual BiographyCritical Exposition of Freire's WorkThe Reception and Influence Freire's WorkAre Freire's Ideas Still Relevant Today?
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Paulo Freire Volumes of the Continuum Library of Educational Thought include: Aristotle St Thomas Aquinas Pierre Bourdieu Jerome Bruner John Dewey Michel Foucault John Holt John Locke Maria Montessori John Henry Newman Plato Lev Vygotsky Rudolf Steiner Jean Piaget Jean-Jacques Rousseau EG West Mary Wollstonecraft St Augustine Loris Malaguzzi and the Reggio Emilia Experience Robert Owen Alexander Moseley Vivian Boland Michael James Grenfell David Olson Richard Pring Lynn Fendler Roland Meighan Alexander Moseley Marion O’Donnell James Arthur and Guy Nicholls Robin Barrow Rene van der Veer Heiner Ullrich Richard Kohler Jürgen Oelkers James Tooley Susan Laird Ryan Topping Kathy Hall, Mary Horgan, Anna Ridgway, Rosaleen Murphy, Maura Cunneen and Denice Cunningham Robert Davis and Frank O’Hagan See www.continuumbooks.com for further details. Members of the Advisory Board Robin Barrow, Dean of Philosophy of Education, and former Dean of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Peter Gronn, Professor of Education, Department of Educational Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. Kathy Hall, Professor of Education, National University of Ireland, Ireland. Stephen Heyneman, Professor of International Educational Policy at the College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, USA. Yung-Shi Lin, President Emeritus and Professor, Department of Education and Institute of Graduate Studies, Taipei Municipal University of Education, Republic of China, Taiwan. Gary McCulloch, Brian Simon Professor of the History of Education, Institute of Education, University of London, USA. Jürgen Oelkers, Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of Zürich, Switzerland. Richard Pring, Lead Director of the Nuffield Review of 14–19 Education and Training for England and Wales; Emeritus Fellow, Green College Oxford, UK. Harvey Siegel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami, USA. Richard Smith, Professor of Education and Director of the Combined Degrees in Arts and Social Sciences, University of Durham, USA. Zhou Zuoyu, Professor of Education, Beijing Normal University, People’s Republic of China. Paulo Freire DANIEL SCHUGURENSKY Continuum Library of Educational Thought Series Editor: Richard Bailey Volume 16 Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane, 11 York Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New York, NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com © Daniel Schugurensky 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Daniel Schugurensky has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-0-8264-8415-4 (hardcover) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Schugurensky, Daniel, 1958Paulo Freire / Daniel Schugurensky. p. cm.—(Continuum library of educational thought; v.16) ISBN 978–0-8264–8415-4—ISBN 978–1-4411–6788-0 1. Freire, Paulo, 1921–1997—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Education—Philosophy. 3. Critical pedagogy. 4. Postmodernism and education. I. Title. LB880.F732S37 2011 370.1—dc22 2010052753 Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound i