Paulo Freire

This last work from internationally respected educator Paulo Freire makes his ideas on education and social reform accessible to a broad audience of teachers, students, and parents. Freire shows how a teacher's success depends on observing individual students' approaches to learning and by the teacher's adapting teaching methods to students' learning methods.

Reinventing Paulo Freire is a homage to Paulo Freire by one of his proteges. The author explores the legacy of Paulo Freire, interviews eight former Freire students who are now teachers themselves, and reflects on teaching practice, as demonstrated by Freire himself.

Provides a critical introduction to the work of Paulo Freire, paying particular attention to later texts. The author explores Freire's philosophy, pedagogy, and theory of literacy. Criticisms of Freire's modernism are discussed and evaluated and a new interpretation of conscientization is advanced.

This book examines critically the ideas & performance of Paulo Freire as secretary of education in Brazil in the early 1990s, during the socialist democratic administration of the Workers' Party in Sao Paulo.

This collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalisation, and the ecological crisis.

This book offers a relevant sample of the current research on Latin American education in comparative perspective. In their introduction, Carlos Alberto Torres & Adriana Puiggros, two of the most recognized researchers of Latin American education, draw from political sociology of education, theories of the state, history of education, & deconstructionist theories to focus on changes in state formation in the region & its implications for the constitution of the pedagogical subject in public schools. Throughout the different chapters, the contributors present & analyze the most relevant topics, research agendas, & some of the key theoretical & political problems of Latin American education.

In Neoliberalism & Education in Latin America, Adriana Puiggros illuminates the process by which the borders separating educators in the United States & Latin America have been erased due to imperialist policies that affect democratic pedagogy in both parts of the Americas. Puiggros takes stock of the critical work on educational relations between the United States & Latin America, covering the evolution of Latin American pedagogical discussion in recent decades. She argues that the association of education with progress, the cornerstone of the U.S. educational system, takes on a different meaning when exported to Latin America as a slogan. Limitless progress, an aim typical of advanced capitalism, becomes, in developing countries, an exhortation toward an unattainable goal: a mirror reflection of U.S. society.

Drawing on elements of progressive education, existential theory, feminist pedagogy, and values education, Reconstructing Education combines the holistic-psychological concerns of humanistic education with the sociopolitical contextualization of critical pedagogy. This empowering example of an educational system that motivates students and encourages them to become active members in a truly democratic society also reviews this century's educational theories and the way this new theory and practice developed over the past 17 years in one of North America's most experimental postsecondary programs, The New School of Dawson College.

Focuses on the use of the methods and theories of anthropology to solve the practical problems of human communities. It addresses a wide range of problem-solving practices in both development action and applied research. The core of the book is chapters focused on specific practices such as evaluation and action research. In addition, there are chapters on history, employment strategies, and ethics.