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Education for Critical Consciousness

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bloomsbury revelationsPublication details: London Bloomsbury Academic 2013Description: xvii, 145 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 978170937816
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.19098 FRE-E
Contents:
Introduction -- Part One. 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 Two. Extension or Communication.
Summary: Famous 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.
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Introduction -- Part One. 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 Two. Extension or Communication.

Famous 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.

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