First Freire: Early Writings in Social Justice Education

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In his new book, Carlos Alberto Torres, an internationally renowned critical theorist of education, explores the early writings of Paulo Freire, whose ideas have had a tremendous and long-lasting impact on the world of pedagogy and politics. Torres analyzes Freire’s works, from the 1960s and 1970s, before Freire gained worldwide recognition for his Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Offering an in-depth look into the formative thinking of Freire, Torres identifies how his ideas produced frameworks for educating global citizens, building community and mutual respect, creating social responsibility, instilling an appreciation for diversity, promoting multiple literacies, and social justice education. This volume is the result of more than 3 decades of research drawn from Freire’s personal library and the archives of the Paulo Freire Institute, as well as the author’s extensive conversations with Paulo Freire over 2 decades. Dr. Torres was also Freire’s adviser during his tenure as secretary of education in the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. Cover Contents Series Foreword REFERENCES Foreword: Paulo Freire’s First Critic Preface: Consciousness and Revolution—The First Freire My last conversation with Paulo Freire Acknowledgments One: Freire’s Education for Development: Past and Present Education for Development: The First Freire The Second Freire: To Africa and the Rest of the World Education for Social Change: Freire Returns to Brazil The Last Freire: Eco-Political Pedagogy and the Citizen School The Global Impact of Paulo Freire Two: Paulo Freire: An Itinerant Thinker of Praxis The historical space and location of the writing Why Paulo Freire in Argentina? An itinerant thinker Exile as Learning PostScript: The Curious Story of a Historical Book Three: Political Philosophy of Education Existential Thought: Its Influence in Paulo Freire Phenomenology: Its Influence in Paulo Freire Marxist Thought: Its Influence in Paulo Freire Hegelian Philosophy: Its Influence in Paulo Freire Four: Education as the Practice of Freedom Five: The Sociological Imagination Six: Education for Social Change Seven: Education, Conscientization, and Liberation Eight: Political Anthropology of Education The meaning of anthropology in Freirean thinking Freire’s Political Anthropology Nine: The Methodology of Thematic Investigation Methodologies for social investigation Dialectical epistemology and its importance in thematic investigation Socio-anthropological referents of thematic investigation (synthesis) Thematic investigation and the theory of praxis Methods of problem-posing literacy Stages The Basic Techniques Paulo Freire’s Practical Suggestions Ten: The Paulo Freire System The Angicos Experience: Short chronology It All started in Angicos: The Paulo Freire System Re-creating the Public Sphere: Remembering and Celebrating Angicos Education as Critical Hermeneutics: An Epistemology of Suspicion Paulo Freire and Popular Education Freire’s Dilemmas: Education, Citizenship, and Ethics Conclusion: Education as Postcolonial Ethics Appendix to Chapter 10: 50 YEARS OF ANGICOS AND THE NATIONAL LITERACY PROGRAM Sources Eleven: Reinventing Paulo Freire in Democracy: Freire’s Political and Pedagogical Currency as a Universal Thinker Freire, Democracy, and Education Education as the Possible Dream: The Question of Teachers’ Education The Connections Between Education and Politics Twenty Lessons from Freire For Critical Educators, Another Globalization is Possible Paulo Freire, a Pilgrim of Utopia Notes References Index About the Author