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Critical Education in International Perspective

Author : Peter Mayo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Critical Education
ISBN 13 : 1350215252
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Critical Education in International Perspective written by Peter Mayo and published by Bloomsbury Critical Education. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Education in International Perspective presents new perspectives on critical education from Latin America, Southern Europe and Africa. While recognising the valuable work in critical education emerging from North America and the Northern hemisphere, testimony to Paulo Freire's influence there, this book sheds light on parts of the world that are not given prominence. The book highlights the complementary work of Lorenzo Milani, Amilcar Cabral, exponents of Italian feminism, Ada Gobetti, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil, Antonio Gramsci, Gabriela Mistral and Julius Nyerere. It also focuses on a range of struggles such as education in the context of landlessness, independence, renewal and cognitive justice, social creation and against neoliberalism and decolonization.

Critical Education in International Perspective

Author : Peter Mayo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135014777X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Critical Education in International Perspective written by Peter Mayo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Education in International Perspective presents new perspectives on critical education from Latin America, Southern Europe and Africa. While recognising the valuable work in critical education emerging from North America and the Northern hemisphere, testimony to Paulo Freire's influence there, this book sheds light on parts of the world that are not given prominence. The book highlights the complementary work of Lorenzo Milani, Amilcar Cabral, exponents of Italian feminism, Ada Gobetti, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil, Antonio Gramsci, Gabriela Mistral and Julius Nyerere. It also focuses on a range of struggles such as education in the context of landlessness, independence, renewal and cognitive justice, social creation and against neoliberalism and decolonization.

International Perspectives on Critical Pedagogies in ELT

Author : Mario E. López-Gopar
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783319956206
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book International Perspectives on Critical Pedagogies in ELT written by Mario E. López-Gopar and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings to the forefront attempts to connect critical pedagogy and ELT (English Language Teaching) in different parts of the world. The authors in this collection write from their own experiences, giving the chapters nuanced understanding of the everyday struggles that teachers, teacher educators and researchers face within different contexts. Throughout the book, contributors connect micro-contexts (classrooms) with macro-contexts (world migration, politics and social issues) to demonstrate the impact and influences of pedagogy. In problematizing ELT and focusing on so-called ‘peripheral’ countries where educators have created their own critical pedagogies to respond to their own local realities, the contributors construct ELT in a way that goes beyond the typical ESL/EFL distinction. This unique edited collection will appeal to teacher educators, in-service teachers working in the field as well as students and scholars of English language teaching, second language acquisition and language education policy.

International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education

Author : Jill Jameson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351347101
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education written by Jill Jameson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an increasing pressure for leading universities to perform well in competitive global and national ranking systems. International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education studies the complexity involved in the development and upkeep of good higher education provision. Without taking anything about leadership, management, governance, administration, authority or power for granted, this book draws together international case studies relating to specific instances of leadership to analyse how they relate to critical thinking and global challenges in higher education. Using a selection of global case studies, this book explores: The extent to which critical thinking on global challenges is employed by higher education leaders, The potential for an increase in the role of critical thinking in leadership, The creative potential for critical leadership thinking to transform institutions and communities, The essential attributes of critical thinking, namely cognitive, affective and social dimensions, and The possibility for critical thinking to contribute to the global public common good by encouraging enhanced research, teaching and public service excellence. Responding to the ever-increasing demands of the higher education climate, International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education is a vital resource for anyone occupying leadership positions in higher education institutions and any researchers or students looking to explore the landscape of critical thinking.

International Students Negotiating Higher Education

Author : Silvia Sovic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113672947X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book International Students Negotiating Higher Education written by Silvia Sovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current economic climate, more than ever, international students provide an important income to universities. They represent much-needed funds for many institutions, but they also come with their own diverse variety of characteristics and requirements. This insightful book offers a critical stance on contemporary views of international students and challenges the way those involved address the important issues at hand. To do this, the authors focus specifically on giving voice to the student experience. In particular, the authors show how international student experience can be a ready asset from which to glean valuable information, particularly in relation to teaching and learning, academic support and the formal and informal curriculum. In this way, the issues affecting international students can be seen as part of the larger set of difficulties that face all students at university today. Integrating contributions from a academics and student voices from a range of backgrounds issues raised include: Academic Writing for International Students The Internationalisation of the Curriculum Identities: The use of stereotypes and auto-stereotypes International Students’ Perceptions of Tutors, and The system in reverse, English speaking learners as 'international students'. This book will be of interest to education management and administrators, higher education professionals, especially those working or training to teach large numbers of international students, to which it offers a unique opportunity to understand better the students’ point-of-view. Because of this the book will likely appeal to academics in all English speaking countries that recruit significant numbers of international students, as well as the growing number of European universities which teach in English and those in the Indian sub-continent that send large numbers of international students to the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the US.

Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities

Author : Sue Winton
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641138815
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities written by Sue Winton and published by IAP. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities offers scholars, students, and practitioners important new knowledge about how current policies impact families, schools, and community partnerships. The book’s authors share a critical orientation towards policy and policy research and invite readers to think differently about what policy is, who policymakers are, and what policy can achieve. Their chapters discuss findings from research grounded in diverse theories, including institutional ethnography, critical disability theory, and critical race theory. The authors encourage scholars of family, school, and community partnerships to ask who benefits from policies (and who loses) and how proposed reforms maintain or disrupt existing relations of power. The chapters present original research on a broad range of policies at the local, state/provincial, and national levels in Canada and the USA. Some authors look closely at the enactment of specific district policies, including a school district’s language translation policy and a policy to create local advisory bodies as part of decentralization efforts. Other chapters reveal the often unacknowledged yet necessary work parents do to meet their children’s needs and enable schools to operate. A few chapters focus on challenges and paradoxes of including families and community members in policymaking processes, including a case where parents demonstrated a preference for a policy that research demonstrates can be detrimental to their children’s future education opportunities. Another set of chapters emphasizes the centrality of policy texts and how language influences the educational experiences and engagement of students and their families. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of implications of the research for educators, families, and other community partners.

International Critical Pedagogy Reader

Author : Antonia Darder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351562533
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book International Critical Pedagogy Reader written by Antonia Darder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully curated to highlight research from more than twenty countries, the International Critical Pedagogy Reader introduces the ways the educational phenomenon that is critical pedagogy are being reinvented and reframed around the world. A collection of essays from both historical and contemporary thinkers coupled with original essays, introduce this school of thought and approach it from a wide variety of cultural, social, and political perspectives. Academics from South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and North America describe critical pedagogy’s political, ideological, and intellectual foundations, tracing its international evolution and unveiling how key scholars address similar educational challenges in diverse national contexts. Each section links theory to critical classroom practices and includes a list of sources for further reading to expand upon the selections offered in this volume. A robust collection, this reader is a crucial text for teaching and understanding critical pedagogy on a truly international level. Winner of the 2016 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award

Teaching Critical Psychology

Author : Craign Newnes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138288348
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Critical Psychology written by Craign Newnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attachment, theory and research -- Preface -- Attachment theory : a humanistic approach for research and practice across cultures / Alan Sroufe -- Universality and cultural specificity in child-mother attachment relationships : in search of answers / German Posada & Jill M. Trumbell -- Unresolved/disorganized responses to the death of important persons : relations to frightening parental behavior and infant disorganization / Naomi I. Gribneau Bahm, Mary Main & Erik Hesse -- Attachment research in urban and rural Mexico : clinical and social implications / Sonia Gojman de Millán, Salvador Millán, Guadalupe Sánchez & Patricia González -- Attachment within the context of a cooperative and sharing mind / Mauricio Cortina -- Attachment at the extremes : lesson from the Bucharest early intervention project / Charles Zeanah, Nathan A. Fox & Charles A. Nelson -- Clinical -- The integration of attachment, mindfulness, and neuroscience / Daniel Siegel -- Minding the baby®: the impact of threat on the mother-baby and mother-clinician relationship / Arietta Slade, Nancy Close, Tanika Simpson, Denise Webb, & Sarah Fitzpatrick -- Attachment, trauma and reality : clinical integrations in the treatment of young children / Alicia Lieberman -- Attachment & complex trauma : an intervention program for institutionalized infants (0 to 4 years) / Felipe Lecannelier -- Appendix

Echoes from Freire for a Critically Engaged Pedagogy

Author : Peter Mayo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441137300
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Echoes from Freire for a Critically Engaged Pedagogy written by Peter Mayo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise and accessible text, Peter Mayo outlines some of the major concepts in Freire's praxis. In pursuit of a critically engaging pedagogy, Mayo compares Freire's work with a range of other thinkers and educators, including Lorenzo Milani, Antonia Darder, John Dewey, Margaret Ledwith, Antonio Gramsci, and Henry Giroux. Chapters in the book include discussions of the State's role in education - specifically higher education; a critical analysis of the dominant discourse in education centering on 'competences' and the type of slant this discourse takes; a study of adult education through a Freirean lens; an historical view of Nicaragua's Freire-inspired literacy and popular education campaigns of 1980; a fresh perspective on the role of social movements in the contexts of social transformation; a new analysis of the relevance of Freirean concepts for transformative research, and an exploration of educators as intellectuals and social actors. The result is a compelling study of how Paulo Freire's writings continue to resonate around the world, and of how we must continue to apply and interpret them anew.

Global Citizenship Education

Author : Abdeljalil Akkari
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030446174
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Global Citizenship Education written by Abdeljalil Akkari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity. Social and political changes brought by globalisation, migration and technological advances of the 21st century have generated a rise in the popularity of the utopian and philosophical idea of global citizenship. In response to the challenges of today’s globalised and interconnected world, such as inequality, human rights violations and poverty, global citizenship education has been invoked as a means of preparing youth for an inclusive and sustainable world. In recent years, the development of global citizenship education and the building of students’ global citizenship competencies have become a focal point in global agendas for education, international educational assessments and international organisations. However, the concept of global citizenship education still remains highly contested and subject to multiple interpretations, and its operationalisation in national educational policies proves to be challenging. This volume aims to contribute to the debate, question the relevancy of global citizenship education’s policy objectives and to enhance understanding of local perspectives, ideologies, conceptions and issues related to citizenship education on a local, national and global level. To this end, the book provides a comprehensive and geographically based overview of the challenges citizenship education faces in a rapidly changing global world through the lens of diversity and inclusiveness.

Learner Relationships in Global Higher Education

Author : David Killick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000372588
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Learner Relationships in Global Higher Education written by David Killick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the academic community with a robust and highly practical insight into the importance of implementing relationship building into the learning environment and experiences of all students, underpinned by current research, this innovative volume explores intercultural learning and critical pedagogy in the borderless university. By revealing cutting-edge theoretical perspectives and practice which can facilitate critical connections between diverse students, their learning, curriculum, each other, and their communities, Learner Relationships in Global Higher Education integrates academic and student perspectives on relationship development into academic practice. Drawing upon case studies and examples of good practice from across the globe, this book illustrates how practitioners in diverse contexts are designing student experiences in face-to-face and online contexts on- and off-campus to advance learner relationships. By situating this work in a critical pedagogy perspective, the book advances internationalisation in and for a global and multicultural world. In the changing contexts of global higher education, this book is a valuable tool for higher education researchers and practitioners at all stages of their careers.

Critical Global Perspectives

Author : Binaya Subedi
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607523884
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Critical Global Perspectives written by Binaya Subedi and published by IAP. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary purpose of this book is to invite educators to (re)think what it means to critically conceptualize knowledge about the world. In other words, imagining curriculum in a critical way means decolonizing mainstream knowledge about global societies. Such an approach re-evaluates how we have come to know the world and asks us to consider the socio-political context in which we have come to understand what constitutes an ethical global imagination. A critical reading of the world calls for the need to examine alternative ways of knowing and teaching about the world: a pedagogy that recognizes how diverse subjects have come to view the world. A critical question this book raises is: What are the radical ways of re-conceptualizing curriculum knowledge about global societies so that we can become accountable to the different ways people have come to experience the world? Another question the book raises is: how do we engage with complexities surrounding social differences such as gender, race, ethnicity, religion, etc., in the global contexts? Analyzing global issues and events through the prism of social difference opens up spaces to advocate a transformative framework for a global education curriculum. Transformative in the sense that such a curriculum asks students to challenge stereotypes and engages students in advocating changes within local/global contexts. A critical global perspective advocates the value of going beyond the nation-state centered approach to teaching about topics such as history, politics, culture, etc. It calls for the need to develop curriculum that accounts for transnational formations: an intervention that asks us to go beyond issues that are confined within national borders. Such a practice recognizes the complicated ways the local is connected to the global and vice versa and cautions against creating a hierarchy between national and global issues. It also suggests the need to critically examine the pitfalls of forming dichotomies between the local (or the national) and the global or the center and the periphery.

International Perspectives on Critical English Language Teacher Education

Author : Ali Fuad Selvi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350400343
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book International Perspectives on Critical English Language Teacher Education written by Ali Fuad Selvi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases how teacher educators from diverse backgrounds, contexts, and realities approach English language teacher education with a critical stance. Organized into nine parts that explore different facets of English Language Teaching, each section opens with theoretical considerations chapters and features 24 practical application chapters. Written by renowned scholars including Graham Hall, Lili Cavalheiro, and Mario López Gopar, among others, the theoretical considerations chapters offer concise insights into current issues and controversies in the field, point out opportunities for criticality, and discuss implications for teacher education. Written by critically-oriented teacher educators/researchers from various parts of the world including Brazil, Germany, Morocco, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA, among others, the practical application chapters exhibit various ways to incorporate critical approaches in reshaping current teacher education practices (ranging from critical and queer pedagogy to translanguaging to multilingualism) along with a critical reflection of the potentials and the challenges involved in their application.

Globalization and Education

Author : Nicholas C. Burbules
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136680047
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Education written by Nicholas C. Burbules and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives , an outstanding group of international contributors explore the increasingly important dimensions of globalization as it affects educational policy and practice in nation-states around the world. Changing conditions in a globalized world-including travel, international media, transnational capitalism, and the role of global organizations and institutions-all have profound implications for the formation and implementation of education policy. Addressing such issues as feminism, multiculturalism, and new technology, this collection of original essays will broaden the context in which educational policy decisions are viewed. Contributors: Michael W. Apple, Jill Blackmore, Nicholas C. Burbules, Juan Ramón Capella, Luiza Cortesão, Greg Dimitriadis, Patrick Fitzsimmons, Douglas Kellner, Bob Lingard, Allan Luke, Carmen Luke, James Marshall, Cameron McCarthy, Raymond A. Morrow, Michael Peters, Thomas S. Popkewitz, Fazal Rizvi, Stephen R. Stoer, and Carlos Alberto Torres.

Navigating the Common Good in Teacher Education Policy

Author : Nikola Hobbel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780815369271
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Navigating the Common Good in Teacher Education Policy written by Nikola Hobbel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating the Common Good in Teacher Education Policy examines the changing relationships between the state and the common (or public) good. Using teacher education policy as the frame of analysis, the authors examine history, cultural context, and lived experiences in 12 countries and the European Union to explicate which notions of justice, social inclusion and exclusion, and citizenship emerge. By situating teacher education policy within a larger philosophical framework regarding the relationship between the state and conceptions of the "common good," this book analyzes the ideological and political desires of the state---how the state understands the common good, the future of national identity, and to what end schooling is imagined.

Critical Perspectives on International Education

Author : Yvonne Hébert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9460919065
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on International Education written by Yvonne Hébert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In rapidly globalizing spaces of life, any research project on international education would necessarily have multi-directional emphases, with the quality of observations and analyses reflecting the expanding political, economic and cultural intersections which characterize this potentially promising century. To respond to these emerging learning and living contexts of our world, this book brings together some of the most active and established scholars in the field. As such, the book represents important epistemic interventions that analyze and critique the institutional, socio-economic, linguistic and pedagogical platforms of international education. As the locus of international education cannot be detached from the pragmatics of social development, the specific recommendations embedded in this book expand the debates and broaden the boundaries of learning projects that should enhance the lives of people, especially those who are continually marginalized by the regimes of globalization. Thus, the book actively advocates for possibilities of human well-beings via different formats of education in diverse locations of life. “Critical Perspectives on International Education offers a historically comprehensive, intellectually honest, and perspective-rich scholarly exploration of a new education-globalization dynamic. This book courageously offers up diverse voices, gathered into a robust and useful conversation regarding global education. This book adds greatly to understanding why educational marketplaces must be driven by principles and practices that empower diverse peoples, to secure sustainable knowledge benefits that contribute to personal, local, national and international well-being. This critical perspective reader will engage scholars, researchers and citizens.” Jim Paul, University of Calgary “In the current intensifications of globalization and its resulting inequalities, it is crucial to better understand the role of knowledge creation and knowledge dissemination. Should knowledge be only a commodity to be sold in the market and a tool to increase economic capital, or should it be a shared sociocultural capital aimed at improving democracy and the common good? In Critical Perspectives on International Education, Yvonne Hébert and Ali A. Abdi assemble an impressive array of contributions from all over the world that address this question from a variety of critical perspectives and case studies. I recommend this book to everyone interested in the connections between education, citizenship development and human well-being.” Daniel Schugurensky, Arizona State University

Education for Critical Consciousness

Author : Paulo Freire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350190179
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Education for Critical Consciousness written by Paulo Freire and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's 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 Freire's 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 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.