Paulo Freire Encyclopedia

Streck, Danilo R.

ISBN 10: 1442216565 / ISBN 13: 9781442216563

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2012

About this Item

Editor(s): Streck, Danilo R.; Redin, Euclides; Zitkoski, Jaime Jose. Num Pages: 490 pages. BIC Classification: GBCY; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 185 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1048. . 2012. hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paulo Freire Encyclopedia
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442216565
• ISBN 13: 9781442216563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Comprised of 230 entries written by 104 international scholars well-known in the field, this is the definitive resource on one of the most influential educators of the second half of the last century. The entries are more properly themes (or using Freirean language, generative themes) from Paulo Freire’s work and include: Action-Reflection, Alienation, Otherness , Illiteracy, Activism, the Classroom, Autonomy, Authority, Authoritarianism, Evaluation, Citizenship, Culture circles, Social class, Coherence, Trust, Knowledge/knowing, Contradiction, Conflict, Popular culture, Epistemological curiosity, Decency, Human rights, Ecology, Professional education, State, Ethics, Exile, Existence, Experience, Family, Feminism, Phenomenology, Globalization, Indignation, Intersubjectivity, Cultural invasion, Interdisciplinarity, Freedom, Liberation Theology, Leadership, Marx/Marxism, Modernity/Post-modernity, Human nature, Participation, Pedagogy, Praxis, Teacher, Racism, Rigor/rigorousness (Methodological), Transcendence, Utopia, Violence, Ontological vocation.

About the Author

Carlos Alberto Torres is Distinguished Professor of Education, UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, and Director of the Paulo Freire Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. He is President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institutes in Sa~o Paulo, Buenos Aires and at UCLA, and Past President of the Comparative International Education Society (CIES).

CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Widely published in Mexico and Latin America, he is the author or editor of twelve previous works in Spanish as well as numerous articles, reviews, and papers. A forthcomingbook, with Daniel A. Morales-Gomez in English, is entitled The State, Corporatist Politics, and Educational Policy Making in Mexico (New York: Praeger, 1990).