Education for Critical Consciousness (Continuum Impacts) - Softcover

Freire, Paolo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082647795X ISBN 13: 9780826477958

Publisher: Continuum, 2005

Synopsis

'Freire combines a compassion for the wretched of the earth with an intellectual and practical confidence and personal humility...Most of all he has a vision of man.' Times Higher Educational Supplement Paulo Freire (1921-97) was an educationalist based in Brazil and became the most influential writer and thinker on education in the late twentieth century. His seminal work Pedagogy of the Oppressed has sold almost 1 million copies. 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 dehumanise both the oppressor and the oppressed, rather than therapy.

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Education for Critical Consciousness '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. Full description

Review:

'Freire combines a compassion for the wretched of the earth with an intellectual and practical confidence and personal humility... Most of all he has a vision of man.' Times Higher Educational Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 082647795X
• ISBN 13: 9780826477958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160