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The Politics of Education: Culture, Power and Liberation

by Paulo Freire · 1990

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Contributes to a radical formulation of pedagogy through its revitalization of language, utopianism, and revolutionary message. . . . The book enlarges our vision with each reading, until the meanings become our own. Harvard Educational Review

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Constitutes the voice of a great teacher who has managed to replace the melancholic and despairing discourse of the post-modern Left with possibility and human compassion. Educational Theory

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educationeducationMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
Themes
teachersteachersMore like thisLess of thissocial justicesocial justiceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 236 pages

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