Education for critical consciousness
By: Paulo Freire
Series: Bloomsbury revelations; Bloomsbury revelations
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9781780937816
Subjects: Educational sociology; Critical pedagogy; Liberty
Work titles: Educação como prática da liberdade
Description: "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"--
Notes: Translation of author's Educação como prática da liberdade.

"First edition published 1974"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Denis Goulet; title: Education as the Practice of Freedom; title: Society in Transition; title: Closed Society and Democratic Inexperience; title: Education versus Massification; title: Education and Conscientização; title: Postscript; title: Appendix; title: Preface to "Extension or Communication" by Jacques Chonchol Extension; title: Extension or Communication.