Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education in Contemporary Context : From Italy to the World Paperback / softback

Edited by Jones Irwin, Letterio Todaro

Part of the New Disciplinary Perspectives on Education series

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Whither the seminal thinking and practice of Paulo Freire in contemporary times?

If Covid 19 is the most seismic health crisis in living memory, it is also just as much an unprecedented crisis for education and society.

While Paulo Freireâ€™s work so often calls attention to the deprivations and exploitations suffered by the weakest in our society, at no stage does Freireâ€™s work succumb to a negativism or a pessimism about the possibilities of transformation.

To the contrary, Freireâ€™s work is always animated by a strong and fundamental affirmative spirit which calls on people to join together to make change, as opposed to simply waiting around for it to happen. This text on Freireâ€™s contemporary importance thus seems a timely intervention. Originally a conversation between engaged interlocutors at a University of Catania symposium, this discussion then broadens out to include connection to the particular rendering of these issues across different national and international contexts. Including essays by established and new thinkers in the Critical Pedagogy perspective, the book also includes up to date and exciting interviews with contemporary practitioners of Theatre of the Oppressed and related social-therapeutic approaches in Italy.