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Author Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997.

Title The politics of education : culture, power, and liberation / Paulo Freire ; introduction by Henry A. Giroux ; translated by Donaldo Macedo
Published Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1985
South Hadley, Mass. : Bergin & Garvey, 1985

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Description xxvii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Critical studies in education
Critical studies in education series.
Contents The act of study -- Adult literacy: the ingenuous and the critical visions -- Peasants and their reading texts -- Cultural action and agrarian reform -- The social worker's role in the process of change -- The adult literacy process as cultural action for freedom -- Cultural action and conscientization -- The process of political literacy -- Humanistic education -- Education, liberation, and the church -- In praise of A Black theology of liberation by James Cone -- A conversation with Paulo Freire -- An invitation to conscientization and deschooling -- Rethinking critical pedagogy: a dialogue with Paulo Freire
Summary Constitutes the voice of a great teacher who has managed to replace the melancholic and despairing discourse of the post-modern Left with possibility and human compassion. "Educational Theory."
Analysis družbeni vidiki izobraževanja
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Education -- Political aspects.
Education -- Social aspects.
Education -- Developing countries.
Literacy.
Author Giroux, Henry A., author of introduction
Macedo, Donaldo, translator
LC no. 84018572
ISBN 0897890426
0897890434
9780897890427
9780897890434