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Reading Paulo Freire : His Life and Work Teacher Empowerment and School Reform author : Gadotti, Moacir. publisher : State University of New York Press isbn10 | asin : 0791419231 print isbn13 : 9780791419236 ebook isbn13 : 9780585044682 language : English subject Freire, Paulo,--1921- , Educators--Brazil--Biography, Education--Philosophy, Popular education, Critical pedagogy. publication date : 1994 lcc : LB880.F732G34 1994eb ddc : 370/.1 subject : Freire, Paulo,--1921- , Educators--Brazil--Biography, Education--Philosophy, Popular education, Critical pedagogy.
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Reading Paulo Freire
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Page ii SUNY SERIES, TEACHER EMPOWERMENT AND SCHOOL REFORM HENRY A. GIROUX AND PETER L. MCLAREN, EDITORS
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Reading Paulo Freire His Life and Work Moacir Gadotti Translated By John Milton State University of New York Press
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 1994 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y. 12246 Production by M.R. Mulholland Marketing by Dana E. Yanulavich Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gadotti, Moacir. Reading Paulo Freire: his life and work / Moacir Gadotti: translated by John Milton. p. cm. (SUNY series, teacher empowerment and school reform) Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0-7914-1923-1. ISBN 0-7914-1924-X (pbk.) 1. Freire, Paulo, 1921- . 2. EducatorsBrazilBiography. 3. EducationPhilosophy. 4. Popular education. 5. Critical pedagogy. I. Title. II. Series: Teacher empowerment and school reform. LB880.F732G34 1994 370'.1dc20 93-26751 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Contents
Foreword: A Land of Contrasts and a Pedagogy of Contradiction
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by Carlos Alberto Torres
Foreword
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by Peter L. McLaren and Henry A. Giroux
Introduction 1. We Can Also Learn in the Shade of the Mangoes
A Teenager Who Considered Himself Ugly
Teaching as a Passion
The Act of Studying
The Act of Knowing 2. The Method Which Took Paulo Freire into Exile
Literacy and Conscientization
The Stages of the Method
Literacy of Children
Basic Readers and Cultural Readers
The Methods Nowadays and Its Reinvention 3. Learning from History
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Historical Factors in the Thinking of Paulo Freire
The Military Coup
Exile in Chile
The Main Works of the First Phase of Exile
African Experience
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4. A Pedagogy for Liberation
Dialogic Pedagogy
Banking Education and Problematizing Education
Dialogic and Antidialogic Theory
The Directive Role of the Educator
The Intellectual and the Popular Masses
Cultural Action for Freedom
Christian Socialism and Utopia 5. Relearning Brazil
A New Context, New Ideas
Works on Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire Today 6. A Revolutionary Educator
Coherence: Theory and Practice
No Reply is Definitive
The Revolutionary Educator: Patiently Impatient
Pedagogy of Indignation
The "Last" Freire
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