Teachers As Cultural Workers
Subtitle: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach
Contributors: Donaldo Macedo (Foreword, Translator); Ana Maria Araujo Freire (Foreword); Dale Koike (Translator); Alexandre Oliveira (Translator)
Edition: Expanded edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780813343297
Subjects: Teaching skills & techniques; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education; Education / Teaching
First sentence: I have just finished reading the galleys, hot off the press, before the final printing hits the bookstores, of my book Pedagogy of Hope: A Re-Encounter with Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which was first written in Portuguese and published by Paz e Terra in December 1992.
Description: In Teachers as Cultural Workers, Freire speaks directly to teachers about the lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist. Freire's words challenge all who teach to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning. He shows why a teacher's success depends on a permanent commitment to learning and training, as part of an ongoing appraisal of classroom practice. By opening themselves to recognition of the different roads students take in order to learn, teachers will become involved in a continual reconstruction of their own paths of curiosity, opening the doors to habits of learning that will benefit everyone in the classroom. In essays new to this edition, well-known and respected educators Peter McLaren, Joe Kincheloe, and Shirley Steinberg add their reflections on the relevance of Freire's work to the study and practice of education across the globe.-- Publisher description.