Social justice education for teachers : : Paulo Freire and the possible dream / / edited by Carlos Alberto Torres and Pedro Noguera.

• TeilnehmendeR: Torres, Carlos Alberto,; Noguera, Pedro,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]; 2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Social Justice Education for Teachers: Paulo Freire and the Possible Dream is a book that will help teachers in their commitment to and praxis of an education for social justice. The book traces the reception of Freire’s ideas in the USA, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia and provides some glimpses of topical yet seminal interventions in the philosophy of education, including studies of the relationships between Freire and Rousseau, Freire and Dewey, or Freire and Gramsci. In addition it addresses how Freire’s ideas could be implemented in urban education, both in the industrialized and developing world, and how the debates about globalization today need to addressed also with the politics of liberation as a possible dream. Three of the authors, Moacir Gadotti, Carlos Alberto Torres, and José Eustaquio Romão with the help of Paulo Freire, created the first Paulo Freire Institute in São Paulo, Brazil in 1991, and worked very closely with Freire for more than two decades, while the remaining scholars/activist are noted Freirean scholars and urban educators devoting their research, teaching and political activism to promote tools of conviviality and models of policy that will make this a better world, a less ugly world, a world, in the words of Freire, where it will be easier to love.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Carlos Alberto Torres and Pedro Noguera -- Paulo Freire and Social Justice Education: An Introduction / Carlos Alberto Torres -- Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich: Technology, Politics, and the Reconstruction of Education / Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner -- Bringing Freire to the Hood: The Relevance and Potential of Freire’s Work and Ideas to Inner-City Youth / Pedro A. Noguera -- Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire: Some Connections and Contrasts / Peter Mayo -- The Utopian Legacy: Rousseau and Freire / Danilo R. Streck -- Paulo Freire, Indigenous Knowledge and Eurocentric Critiques of Development: Three Perspectives / Raymond A. Morrow -- Reason, Emotion and Politics in the Work of Paulo Freire / Peter Roberts -- Civilization of the Oppressed / José Eustaquio Romão -- Freire, Apathy and the Decline of the American Left / Richard van Heertum -- Paulo Freire and the Culture of Justice and Peace / Moacir Gadotti -- Paulo Freire and the New Latin American Pedagogical Imaginings / Adriana Puiggrós -- Untested Feasibility in Paulo Freire / Isabel Bohorquez -- New Ways of Transnational Regulation of Educational Policies / Antonio Teodoro -- Travels in Troy with Freire / Paulo Blikstein.