Politics of Liberation: Paths from Freire

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Peter McLaren, Colin Lankshear
Routledge, 1994 - Critical pedagogy. - 229 pages
This book consists of a collection of original essays on the work of Paulo Freire, based on diverse experiences of First and Third world contexts. All of authors argue that Paulo Freire is the cornerstone upon which a new vision and strategies of liberation can be built. The book offers a broad interpretive base addressing Marxist and post-socialist, modern and post-modern, hermeneutical, feminist and post-colonial perspectives.

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About the author (1994)

PETER McLAREN is Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education. He is the author of "Cries from the Corridor: The New Suburban Ghettoes and Schooling as a Ritual Performance". He has edited "Between Borders" (1993) with Henry Giroux and "A Critical Pedagogy of Representation: Rethinking Media Literacy" (1994)..

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