Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach / Edition 1

by Paulo Freire

Overview

In Teachers as Cultural Workers, Freire speaks directly to teachers about the lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist. Freire's words challenge all who teach to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning. He shows why a teacher's success depends on a permanent commitment to learning and training, as part of an ongoing appraisal of classroom practice. By opening themselves to recognition of the different roads students take in order to learn, teachers will become involved in a continual reconstruction of their own paths of curiosity, opening the doors to habits of learning that will benefit everyone in the classroom. In essays new to this edition, well-known and respected educators Peter McLaren, Joe Kincheloe, and Shirley Steinberg add their reflections on the relevance of Freire's work to the study and practice of education across the globe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813343297
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/13/2005
Edition description:	Expanded edition
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paulo Freire (1921-1997) was a world-renowned Brazilian education scholar. Perhaps the most influential thinker about education in the late twentieth century, Freire has been particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the oppressed. His legacy of commitment, love and hope to American educators can be found in the critical pedagogy which infuses hundreds of "grass roots" organizations, college classrooms, and most recently school reform efforts in major urban areas. Freire was a prolific writer and author of many books. His most important work was Pedagogy of the Oppressed in which he describes the oppressive mechanisms of a capitalist education.

Table of Contents

Foreword — Preface: A Pedagogy for Life — Introduction — First Words: A Pedagogical Trap — First Letter: Reading the World/Reading the Word — Second Letter: Don’t Let the Fear of What Is Difficult Paralyze You — Third Letter: I Came into the Teacher Training Program Because I Had No Other Options — Fourth Letter: On the Indispensable Qualities of Progressive Teachers for Their Better Performance — Fifth Letter: The First Day of School — Sixth Letter: On the Relationship Between the Educator and the Learners — Seventh Letter: From Talking to Learners to Talking to Them and with Them; From Listening to Learners to Being Heard by Them — Eighth Letter: Cultural Identity and Education — Ninth Letter: Concrete Context/Theoretical Context — Tenth Letter: Once More the Question of Discipline — Last Words: To Know and to Grow—Everything Yet to See — Afterword

Editorial Reviews

"While Freire often discussed education theories in regard to Third World countries, his latest text transcends all cultures and speaks to all who educate. For those who share Freire's vision of a world-wide democratic school, I highly recommend Teachers as Cultural Workers. "
--Vanguard

"The English translation of Freire's latest book should become the instant success the original Portuguese edition was ...Upper-division undergraduates through professional will find it worth [their] time and effort. "
--Choice


While Freire often discussed education theories in regard to Third World countries, his latest text transcends all cultures and speaks to all who educate. For those who share Freire's vision of a world-wide democratic school, I highly recommend Teachers as Cultural Workers.
Vanguard
The English translation of Freire's latest book should become the instant success the original Portuguese edition was Upper-division undergraduates through professional will find it worth [their] time and effort.
Choice
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From the Publisher

The last work by a world-renowned Brazilian education scholar, originally published in Portuguese. Freire speaks directly to teachers about lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist, and explains the implications for classroom application of his ideas and theories found in his and other treatises. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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