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We make the road by walking:

conversations on education and social change
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Temple University Press, 1990 - Education - 256 pages
This dialogue between two of the most prominent thinkers on social change in the twentieth century was certainly a meeting of giants. Throughout their highly personal conversations recorded here, Horton and Freire discuss the nature of social change and empowerment and their individual literacy campaigns. The ideas of these men developed through two very different channels; Horton's, from the Highlander Center, a small, independent residential education center situated outside the formal schooling system and the state; Freire's, from within university and state-sponsored programs. For both men, real liberation is achieved through popular participation. The themes they discuss illuminate problems faced by educators and activists around the world who are concerned with linking participatory education to the practice of liberation and social change. How could two men, working in such different social spaces and times, arrive at similar ideas and methods? These conversations answer that question in rich detail and engaging anecdotes, and show that, underlying the philosophy of both, is the idea that theory emanates from practice and that knowledge grows from and is a reflection of social experience.
  

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Easy to read, great introduction to critical pedagogy. - Goodreads
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Hmm. . . I'm glad to have come across this book twice. The first time recommended by a friend, the second as assigned in Litigation, Organizing, and Social Change. I read it, the second time. My ... Read full review

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I started reading this in amandas home a long while ago! then liz took it out of the penn library for me. friend book hook ups. This is basically a long dialogue between two educators with radical ... Read full review

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Contents

We make the road by walking
3
Formative Years
9
Ideas
97
charismatic leaders
109
The difference between education
115
My expertise is in knowing not to be
128
Educational Practice
145
Education and Social Change
199
Reflections
227
Index
251
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About the author (1990)

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.

John Gaventa is a Fellow with the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK.

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TitleWe make the road by walking: conversations on education and social change
AuthorsMyles Horton, Paulo Freire
EditorsBrenda. Bell, John Gaventa, John Marshall Peters
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherTemple University Press, 1990
ISBN0877227756, 9780877227755
Length256 pages
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Education / Adult & Continuing Education
Education / Philosophy & Social Aspects
  
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