Education for Critical Consciousness

ISBN: 1350190152

Author: Freire, Paulo

Condition: New

Famous for his advocacy of critical pedagogy, Paulo Freire was Latin Americas foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freires revolutionary method of education. It takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals. For Freire, mans striving for his own humanity requires the changing of structures which dehumanize both the oppressor and the oppressed. This edition includes a substantial new introduction by Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA, USA.Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos.