Authors:Chet A. Bowers, Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Frdrique
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: political, historical, studies, education, sociocultural, crisis, freire, globalization, environmental, thinking
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-10-13
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0805851143
ISBN-13: 9780805851144

This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.One source of the activist-authors’ criticisms of Freire’s pedagogy is rooted in their attempts to combine consciousness raising with literacy programs in such diverse cultural settings as Bolivia, Peru, India, Southern Mexico, and Cambodia, where they discovered that Freire’s pedagogy is based on western assump