Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis

by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and Chet A. Bowers

Book Overview

This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.

One source of the activist-authors' criticisms of Freire's pedagogy is rooted in their attempts to combine consciousness raising with literacy programs in such diverse cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805851143
• ISBN13: 9780805851144
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"