Literacy-“Freire and Macedo’s work cannot be ignored by the student of educational change in contemporary society. It should be consulted by anyone who believes in using education as a vehicle of social change.”-Small Press Book Review
“Freire’s provocative explanation of [literacy] could lead to a constructive dialectical debate’ in the United States.”-The Los Angeles Times
“Every chapter . . . asks teachers to think again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils and how to get on with it.”-The Times Educational Supplement
“[This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as eductors at all levels of learning.”-Contemporary Sociology
“Freire’s provocative explanation of Ýliteracy¨ could lead to a constructive dialectical debate’ in the United States.”-The Los Angeles Times
Literacy-“ÝThis¨ book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as eductors at all levels of learning.”-Contemporary Sociology
?Freire’s provocative explanation of [literacy] could lead to a constructive dialectical debate’ in the United States.?-The Los Angeles Times
Literacy-To misunderstand Freire’s humanism as mysticism is closed mindedness of the worst kind. Freire’s ideas in this book are crucial for understanding literacy in our context. His educational approach is based on an understanding of communication that reflects Bakhtin’s diaologics, an understanding of the relationship between form and content that many of the participants in our current media sphere could learn from, and a basic investment in the value of human beings that are necessary for our age of such wide experiential differences.
Literacy-At it’s core, Freire argues that our reading of the world is preceded by our writing of the world. As long as one is willing to see the world as already made rhetorical by our experiences of ideology, this approach can connect students, teachers, and regular folks (heh heh) to each other in a common concern of self-empowerment.