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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813119303321

Autore

Kirkendall Andrew J

Titolo

Paulo Freire and the Cold War politics of literacy / / Andrew J. Kirkendall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0630-5

0-8078-9953-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

302.2/244

302.2244

Soggetti

Literacy - Political aspects

Literacy - Political aspects - Latin America

Cold War

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Paulo Freire and the Twentieth-Century Drive for Development; 1 Entering History; 2 The Revolution that Wasn't and the Revolution that Was in Brazil, 1961-1964; 3 Reformist Chile, Peasant Consciousness, and the Meaning of Christian Democracy, 1964-1969; 4 Paulo Freire and the World Council of Churches in the First and Third Worlds, 1969-1980; 5 The Sandinistas and the Last Utopian Experiment of the Cold War, 1979-1980; 6 The Long, Slow Transition to Democracy in Brazil and the End(?) of Utopia, 1980-1997

Epilogue: Legacies of a Cold War Intellectual in a Post-Cold War World Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970's), and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980). This political biography of Paulo Freire (1921-97), who played a crucial role in shaping international literacy education, also presents a thoughtful examination of the volatile politics of literacy during the Cold War.A native of Brazil's impoverished northeast, Freire



developed adult