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Teachers As Cultural Workers:

Letters to Those Who Dare Teach
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Westview Press, 1998 - Education - 100 pages
Upon its recent publication in Portuguese, Paulo Freire's newest book became an instant success. This English translation is sure to meet with similar acclaim. 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. No other book so cogently explains the implications for classroom practice of Freire's latest ideas and the pathbreaking theories found in Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other treatises.This book challenges all who teach to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning. Freire 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 observing the curiosity of students and the manner through which students develop strategies for learning, the teacher is helped in discovering doubts, successes, and the teacher's mistakes. When teachers open themselves to recognize the different roads students take in order to learn, they 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.

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Review: Teachers as Cultural Workers (Edge, Critical Studies in Educational Theory)

User Review  - Emma M. - Goodreads

Paulo provides valuable insights for anyone in education. He really reignited my own love and passion for my career. With that said I really think some things were lost in translation, because there were quite a few moments I just couldn't follow. Read full review

Review: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach with New Commentary by Peter McLaren, Joe L. Kincheloe, and Shirley

User Review  - Bill DeGenaro - Goodreads

A series of ten short essays or "letters to teachers" expanding on Freire's earlier writings about establishing democratic relationships with students and maintaining faith in his own method's potential to facilitate "reading the world." Read full review

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JSTOR: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach
His book, Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach, is no exception. Simply, but not simplistically, this book presents many of ...
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WP 13, Teachers as Cultural Workers, Summary The Danish University ...
1. WP 13, Teachers as Cultural Workers, Summary. The Danish University of Education. May 07. Introduction. This is the second work package out of three ...
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Teachers as Cultural Workers. Letters to Those Who Dare Teach. The ...
ED414385 - Teachers as Cultural Workers. Letters to Those Who Dare Teach. The Edge: Critical Studies in Educational Theory.
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Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach
Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach Book by Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo, Dale Koike, Alexandre Oliveira; 1998.
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ex PA ndededition. TEACHERS AS CULTURAL WORKERS. Letters to Those Who Dare Teach. PAULO FREIRE. WITH NEW COMMENTARY BY ...
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A Teacher’s Indispensable Qualities: A Freirean Perspective
In Teachers as cultural workers: Letters to those who dare teach (pp. 39–46). Boulder, CO:. Westview Press. Freire, P. (1998). Pedagogy of freedom. ...
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Journal of Transformative Education
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About the author (1998)

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.

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TitleTeachers As Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach
The Edge Series
The Edge, Critical Studies in Educational Theory
AuthorPaulo Freire
Editionrevised
PublisherWestview Press, 1998
ISBN0813323045, 9780813323046
Length100 pages
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