| Description |
xxxvii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
"We make the road by walking" -- "I was always getting in trouble for reading in school" -- "Reading has to be a loving event" -- "I couldn't use all this book learning" -- "I always am in the beginning, as you" -- "Pocket of hope": literacy and citizenship -- "Without practice there's no knowledge" -- "Is it possible just to teach biology" -- "I've always been ambivalent about charismatic leaders" -- "The difference between education and organizing" -- "My expertise is in knowing not to be an expert" -- "My respect for the soul of the culture" -- "I learned a lot from being a father" -- "The more the people become themselves, the better the democracy" -- "Highlander is a weaving of many colors" -- "Conflicts are the midwife of consciousness " -- "You have to bootleg education" -- "The people begin to get their history into their hands, and then the role of education changes" -- "Peaks and valleys and hills and hollers" -- "It's necessary to laugh with the people" -- Epilogue |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page xxxv-xxxvii |
| SUBJECT |
Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029767
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Horton, Myles, 1905-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86079457
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| Subject |
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
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Adult education -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Education -- Social aspects -- Brazil.
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Social change.
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Social action.
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| Author |
Bell, Brenda.
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Gaventa, John, 1949-
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Peters, John M. (John Marshall), 1941-
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| LC no. |
90036005 |
| ISBN |
0877227713 |
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0877227756 |
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