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Author O'Shea, Andrew

Title Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate : the Return of Freirean Thinking
Published London : Continuum International Pub., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Towards a Pedagogy of Care and Well-Being: Restoring the Vocation of Becoming Human Through Dialogue and Relationality; Chapter 2 Paulo Freire and the Tasks of the Critical Educational Scholar/Activist; Chapter 3 Resistance, Struggle and Survival: The University as a Site for Trans formative Education; Chapter 4 Liberal Education, Reading the Word and Naming the World; Chapter 5 Conscientization: The Art of Learning
Chapter 6 Taking Educational Risks With and Without Guaranteed Identities: Freire's 'Problem-Posing' and Judith Butler's 'Troubling'Chapter 7 A Post-Modernist Rendering of Freire's Educational Vision? Some Reflections on the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies; Chapter 8 Rethinking Transformation in Light of Post-Modern Education: 'Freire is Dead, Long Live Freire!'; Bibliography; Index
Summary Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate provides an urgent reflection on Freire's work, in particular his central principles of pedagogy and praxis, offering a variety of critical responses from philosophical, sociological and egalitarian perspectives. The editors explore whether Freire's revolutionary work has stood the test of time and it's relevance to educational discourses today discourses that frequently contest the ontological and historical aspects of human developmentWhile Freire's work emerged as a response to the problem of providing a transformative edu
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Subject Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997 -- Influence
SUBJECT Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997 fast
Subject Critical pedagogy.
Critical pedagogy
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Form Electronic book
Author O'Brien, Maeve
ISBN 9781441175229
1441175229
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9781283307802
9781441115515
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