Paulo Freire: Teaching for Freedom and Transformation: The Philosophical Influences on the Work of Paulo Freire

by Emery J. Hyslop-Margison and John Dale

The primary mission of this text is clarifying many of the misconceptions about Paulo Freire's theories, concepts and his implications for education. It revisits his ideas and explains more fully the philosophical influences that shaped concepts such as problem posing, conscientization and praxis. The fundamental thesis, then, is that the present absence of in-depth philosophical analysis leaves an unacceptable void in the literature addressing Freire's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048190991
• ISBN13: 9789048190997
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"