Reading Paulo Freire : his life and work / / Moacir Gadotti ; translated by John Milton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807127503321
• Autore: Gadotti Moacir
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1994
• ISBN: 1-4384-0359-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (137 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series, teacher empowerment and school reform
• Disciplina: 370/.1
• Soggetti: Educators - Brazil; Education - Philosophy; Popular education; Critical pedagogy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-194) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Foreword: A Land of Contrasts and a Pedagogy of Contradiction by Carlos Alberto Torres""; ""Foreword 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 Primers""; ""The Method Nowadays and Its Reinvention""; ""3. Learning from History""""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""; ""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""; ""Paulo Freire as Public Administrator""; ""7. Paulo Freire in the Context of Contemporary Pedagogical Thought""; ""Carl Rogers and Student-Centered Learning""; ""Confrontation with Ivan Illich""; ""John Dewey and the New School""; ""Vygotsky and the Revolutionary Soviet Educators""; ""The Complexity and the Universal Dimension of the Work of Paulo Freire""; ""Critique, Self-Critique, and Dialectic Conception""""Conclusion""; ""Epilogue: Education at the End Of This Century""; ""Dialogue With Paulo Freire""; ""Notes""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. We Can Also Learn in the Shade of the Mangoes""; ""Chapter 2. The Method Which Took Paulo Freire into Exile""; ""Chapter 3. Learning from History""; ""Chapter 4. A Pedagogy for Libertion""; ""Chapter 5. Relearning Brazil""; ""Chapter 6. A Revolutionary Educator""; ""Chapter 7. Paulo Freire in the Context of Contemporary Pedagogical Thought""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""I. Paulo Freire's Main Works (in Chronological Order)""""II. Main Works about Paulo Freire and Other Consulted Works""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""