The Student Guide to Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' - Hardcover

Darder, Antonia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474255663 ISBN 13: 9781474255660

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

This book serves as an important companion to Freire's seminal work, providing powerful insights into both a philosophically sound and politically inspired understanding of Freire's book, supporting application of his pedagogy in enacting emancipatory educational programs in the world today.

Antonia Darder closely examines Freire's ideas as they are articulated in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, beginning with a historical discussion of Freire's life and a systematic discussion of the central philosophical traditions that informed his revolutionary ideas. She engages and explores Freire's fundamental themes and ideas, including the issues of humanization, the teacher/student relationship, reflection, dialogue, praxis, and his larger emancipatory vision. Questions are included throughout Chapter 3, Reading the Text Chapter-by-Chapter, to enable greater discussion of, and engagement with, the text itself. The book includes an incisive interview with Freire's widow, Ana Maria Araujo Freire. The bibliography offers invaluable support to those looking to read and study other works by Paulo Freire.

About this title

About the Author:

Antonia Darder holds the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA, and is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Johannesburg. She is a distinguished international Freirean scholar, and her recent publications include Freire and Education (2014) and Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy of Love (2017).

Review:

Darder does the masterful work of combining the personal and the political which both situates Paulo as a freedom fighter and his work as a deep and moving expression of the radical and social imagination. This is a manuscript that both theorizes pedagogy while it performs it in an accessible way that Paulo would have loved. Pedagogy in this sense is rooted in both a historical context and functions as a text to address the immensity of the burden that education as the practice of freedom has to address in the current moment of repression. This book should be considered a national treasure and will be read my future generations as a crucial text in both their understanding of Paulo's classic work and as a text that will inspire and energize them.
Henry Giroux, Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy, McMaster University, USA

In our current educational landscape of runway fetishization of methods, Antonia Darder's exceptional book is must reading for all educators, particularly those who yearn to become agents of change.
Lilia I. Bartolomé, Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential works in the field of Education. Antonia Darder's new book provides excellent scholarly company for the attentive reader of this classic text. Darder sets Pedagogy of the Oppressed in its appropriate contexts, discusses its philosophical underpinnings, and demonstrates its continuing significance for educationists in the 21st century. This book will be welcomed by all who have an interest in Freire's pedagogical theory and practice.
Peter Roberts, Professor of Education, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1474255663
• ISBN 13: 9781474255660
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216