Education, Literacy, and Humanization

Exploring the Work of Paulo Freire

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Peter Roberts

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The author adopts a holistic approach in exploring the ontological, epistemological, ethical, and pedagogical dimensions of Paulo Freire's thought. The book discusses Freire's approach to adult literacy education and investigates the political, dialogical, and critical aspects to the multidimensional word in Freirean theory. The author outlines and assesses a number of key critiques of Freire's modernism, concentrating in particular on questions pertaining to the problem of pedagogical intervention. He responds at some length to C.A. Bowers, one of Freire's most important and persistent critics, and finds fault with behaviorist, stage-based accounts of consciousness raising. The Freirean concept of conscientization is reinterpreted in light of the postmodern notion of multiple subjectivities. From this book, Freire emerges as a complex educational figure: a thinker and teacher deeply committed to the universalist ideal of humanization, yet also wary of some of the exaggerated certainties of modernism. His work, for all its flaws and contradictions, remains highly influential and stands opposed to technicist and neoliberal tendencies in recent educational reform initiatives.

Author Biography:

PETER ROBERTS is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Release date NZ

May 30th, 2000

Author

Peter Roberts

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

192

Dimensions

152x229x14

ISBN-13

9780897895712

Product ID

5261671

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