Education for Critical Consciousness

Title: Education for Critical Consciousness
Author: Paulo Freire
Education: 1701752
ISBN: 9780826477958
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2005
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: unknown
Number of Pages: 160
Section: Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 'Freire combines a compassion for the wretched of the earth with an intellectual and practical confidence and personal humility... Most of all he has a vision of man.' Times Higher Educational Supplement most influential writer and thinker on education in the late twentieth century. His seminal work Pedagogy of the Oppressed has sold almost 1 million copies. 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, man's striving for his own humanity requires the changing of structures which dehumanise both the oppressor and the oppressed, rather than therapy.