03146nam 2200637Ia 450 991045889380332120200520144314.01-4696-0630-50-8078-9953-4(CKB)2670000000058459(EBL)605918(OCoLC)676700144(SSID)ssj0000424976(PQKBManifestationID)11292295(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424976(PQKBWorkID)10477873(PQKB)11005676(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245744(MiAaPQ)EBC605918(MdBmJHUP)muse23443(Au-PeEL)EBL605918(CaPaEBR)ebr10425398(CaONFJC)MIL930199(EXLCZ)99267000000005845920100219d2010 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrPaulo Freire and the Cold War politics of literacy[electronic resource] /Andrew J. KirkendallChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20101 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-2224-6 0-8078-3419-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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, 1980-1997Epilogue: Legacies of a Cold War Intellectual in a Post-Cold War World Notes; Bibliography; IndexIn 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 adultLiteracyPolitical aspectsLiteracyPolitical aspectsLatin AmericaCold WarElectronic books.LiteracyPolitical aspects.LiteracyPolitical aspectsCold War.302.2/244Kirkendall Andrew J1051852MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458893803321Paulo Freire and the Cold War politics of literacy2482650UNINA