MTU Cork Library Catalogue

Education for critical consciousness

Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997

Education for critical consciousness [electronic book] / Paulo Freire. - xvii, 145 pages ; - Bloomsbury revelations . - Bloomsbury revelations .

Translation of author's Educacao como prática da liberdade.

Includes bibliographical references.

Society in Transition -- Closed Society and Democratic Inexperience -- Education versus Massification -- Education and Conscientizacao -- A semantic analysis of the term “Extension” -- Extension and cultural invasion— a necessary criticism -- 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"--




Electronic reproduction.:
ProQuest LibCentral.
Mode of access: World Wide Web

9781780937816 (paperback) 9781780937458 (e-book)


Educational sociology--Latin America
Liberty
Critical pedagogy--Latin America.

370.115

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