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A Pedagogy for Liberation:

Dialogues on Transforming Education
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Greenwood Publishing Group, 1987 - Education - 203 pages
Two world renowned educators, Paulo Freire and Ira Shor, speak passionately about the role of education in various cultural and political arenas. They demonstrate the effectiveness of dialogue in action as a practical means by which teachers and students can become active participants in the learning process. In a lively exchange, the authors illuminate the problems of the educational system in relation to those of the larger society and argue for the pressing need to transform the classroom in both Third and First World contexts. Shor and Freire illustrate the possibilities of transformation by describing their own experiences in liberating the classroom from its traditional constraints. They demonstrate how vital the teacher's role is in empowering students to think critically about themselves and their relation, not only to the classroom, but to society. For those readers seeking a liberatory approach to education, these dialogues will be a revelation and a unique summary. For all those convinced of the need for transformation, this book shows the way.
  

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Two world renowned educators, Paulo Freire and Ira Shor, speak passionately about the role of education in various cultural and political arenas. They demonstrate the effectiveness of dialogue in ... Read full review

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The book is very loaded, but for a philosophical book it was still very readable. It promotes the liberative democratic teaching method over the authoritarian method. Read full review

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Contents

The Dream of Liberating Education
1
Rigor and Motivation in a Liberating Course
4
Modeling a Critical Theory of Knowing
7
The Politics of Reading
10
The Myth of ValueFree Learning
12
How Can Teachers Become Liberating Educators?
17
A Trip Towards Liberating Education
21
Resistance and Support
24
Starting With Reality to Overcome It
106
Empowerment Is A Social Act
108
Class and Empowerment
111
The Teacher as Artist
115
Do FirstWorld Students Need Liberating?
121
A Culture of Sabotage
123
The Limits of Education
129
Beyond the Limits of Education
133

Teachers Learn With and From Students
30
Liberating Methods Reveal Dominant Ideology
35
Education in Movements and Communities
38
Lecture versus Discussion Formats
39
TeacherTalk versus Dialogue Domination versus Illumination
44
Dialogue and Subject Matter
48
What Are The Fears And Risks Of Transformation?
53
Limits and Lessons
57
Acting In Spite of Fear
60
The Fear of Student Resistance
67
Is There Structure and Rigor in Liberating Education?
75
Democratic and Directed
79
Understanding versus Memorizing
87
Freedom and Limits in a Liberating Classroom
90
TeacherStudent Differences
92
What Is The Dialogical Method?
97
Dialogue and Situated Pedagogy
103
Schoolwords versus Reality
135
How Can Liberating Educators Overcome Language Differences With The Students?
143
Abstract versus Concrete Speech
147
Transforming the Academic Idiom
152
The Teachers Directive Responsibility
156
The Inductive Moment in Critical Discourse
158
Humor in Dialogue
161
Facing Racism and Sexism in a Dialogic Class
163
The Dream Of Social Transformation How Do We Begin?
171
The Right To Challenge Inequality and Domination
174
Invitation Not Manipulation
176
A Practical Agenda For Day One
180
Making the Future Possible
184
Resources for Transformation
189
INDEX
193
Copyright

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About the author (1987)

Ira Shor has a dual appointment as Professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate School and at the College of Staten Island. He worked with Paulo Freire for a number of years and coauthored with Freire, A Pedagogy for Liberation.

Paulo Freire is one of the most widely read educational philosophers and practitioners in the world today, except in the United States, where he remains relatively unknown to many in the educational community as well as the general public. Freire received international acclaim and notoriety with his first and best-known work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, first published in English in 1970. His teachings draw much of their inspiration from a Marxist critique of society; for this reason he was forced into exile from his native Brazil in 1964, and his works were banned in many developing nations. His pedagogy for adult literacy has been implemented successfully in several African nations and has been the basis for literacy crusades in Nicaragua and other Latin American countries. His philosophical approach to education forms the basis for much of the critical theory work in education now taking place in the United States, Europe, and developing nations.

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TitleA Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on Transforming Education
AuthorIra Shor
Photographs byPaulo Freire
Editionillustrated
PublisherGreenwood Publishing Group, 1987
ISBN0897891058, 9780897891059
Length203 pages
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