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Education for critical consciousness / Paulo Freire.

By: Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997 [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Bloomsbury revelations: Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013Description: xiii, 145 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780937816 (paperback).Subject(s): Educational sociology -- Latin America | Liberty | Critical pedagogy -- Latin AmericaAdditional physical formats: Electronic version:.: Education for critical consciousness DDC classification: 370.115 Also available in electronic form.
Contents:
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?
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 370.115 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 08/09/2023 00177472
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Translation of author's Educação como prática da liberdade

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Also available in electronic form.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Paulo Freire is the author of the bestselling Pedagogy of the Oppressed as well as Education for Critical Consciousness , Pedagogy in Process (The Letters to Guinea-Bissau), Learning to Questio n (with Antonio Faundez), and Pedagogy of the City .

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