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Content s Acknowledgements...vii FREIREAN CONCEPTS...1 Ch apter 1 I nt r o duc t ion : Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Anniversary Tribute For an Anniversary Series... 3 Chapter 2 Freire s Ideas More Generally: On Whose Side Are We When We Teach Act?... 9 Chapter 3 Freire on Intellectuals...14 FREIREAN INTERPRETATIONS...19 Chapter 4 Reading and Transforming the World Together: A Freirean Perspective on Education and Social Movements...21 Chapter 5 The Competence Discourse and the Struggle for Social Agency and Citizenship: A Freirean Perspective...36 Chapter 6 Critical Literacy and the Development of a Multi-Ethnic Citizenship: A Freirean Southern-European Perspective...45 Chapter 7 Popular Education and Transformative Research...54 Chapter 8 Adult Learning, Teaching and Programme Planning: Insights from Freire...64 AFFINITIES WITH FREIRE...75 Chapter 9 Paulo Freire and Lorenzo Milani...77 Chapter 10 Julius Nyerere s Thinking on Education...101 v 9781441118172_FM_Rev_txt_prf.indd v 6/14/2001 11:53:59 AM
CONTENTS FREIREAN INSPIRATION...121 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Critical Pedagogy, Historical Materialism and Dialectical Thinking: A Tribute to Paula Allman... 123 Dissidence, Love and Cultural Power: An Essay on Antonia Darder... 132 Striving Against the Eclipse of Democracy: Henry A. Giroux s Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice...144 Bibliography...171 Author Index...191 Subject Index...000 vi 9781441118172_FM_Rev_txt_prf.indd vi 6/14/2001 11:53:59 AM
Acknowledgements I would like to thank my wife Josephine Mayo and daughters, Annemarie Mayo and Cecilia Mayo, for their love and support as I worked through the various articles that constitute the basis for this book. I would like to thank a number of people whose ideas inspired me to write this book: Paula Allman (late), Federico Batini, Carmel Borg, Mario Cardona, Mary Darmanin, Antonia Darder, Antonia De Vita, Leona M. English, Henry A. Giroux, Budd L. Hall, Dip Kapoor, Margaret Ledwith, Peter McLaren, André Elias Mazawi, Anna Maria Piussi, students in my MA Adult Education classes at University of Malta (2008, 2010 cohorts), students in the MA Adult Education graduate class at University of Seville in 2007, students in my graduate class at Bogazici University in July 2009, students in my PGCE classes on Freire from 2009 till 2011, students in my comparative adult education class at UBC in July 2010, Alessio Surian, Bruno Schettini (late), Daniel Schugurensky, Shirley Steinberg, Carlos Alberto Torres and Kenneth Wain. I also need to acknowledge prior publication of chapters either in their current or revised form in a number of other outlets, ranging from journals to conference proceedings. Chapter 1 is based on an article in the Classic Texts Commentary Series, published as Mayo, P. (2010), Signposts for a Politically Engaged Pedagogy, Community Development Journal, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 380 4. vii 9781441118172_FM_Rev_txt_prf.indd vii 6/14/2001 11:54:00 AM
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Chapter 2 is based on a short article, published as Mayo, P. (2008), Tenth Anniversary of Paulo Freire s Death. On Whose Side Are We When We Teach/Act?, Adult Education and Development, No. 69, pp. 105 11. Chapter 3 is based on an entry in Portuguese, published as Mayo, P. (2010), Intellectuais, in D. Streck, E. Redin and J. J. Zitkoski (Eds), Dicionário Paulo Freire, Belo Horizonte: Autêntica Editora. Chapter 4 is a revised version of a chapter which first appeared as Mayo, P. (2008), Reading and Transforming the World Together. A Freirean Perspective on Education and Social Movements, in Revista de stiinte ale educatiei, anul 10, 1(17), pp. 66 8. It provided the basis for a much larger and much more amplified version, which appeared as a co-authored chapter (ch. 10 ) Adult Education and Social Movements, in L. English and P. Mayo (2012), Learning with Adults. A Critical Pedagogical Introduction, Rotterdam and Taipei: Sense Publishers; it also appeared as an article English, L. and Mayo, P. (2012), Adult Education and Social Movements: Perspectives from Freire and Beyond, Educazione Democratica, Nu. 3, pp. 170 208, also available online: www.educazionedemocratica.it/. Chapter 5 was previously published as Mayo, P. (2010), The Competence Discourse in Education and the Struggle for Social Agency and Critical Citizenship, International Journal of Educational Policies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 5 16. Chapter 6 was originally published in Portuguese as Mayo, P. (2005), Educação Critica e Desenvolvimento de uma Cidadania Multi- Étnica. Uma perspective a partir do Sul da Europa, Revista Lusófona de Educação, No. 6, pp. 47 54. Chapter 7 was originally published as Mayo, P. (2010), Popular Education and Transformative Research, in Emilio Lucio- Villegas (Ed.), Transforming/Researching Communities, Xátiva: Dialogos-Red, ESREA. viii 9781441118172_FM_Rev_txt_prf.indd viii 6/14/2001 11:54:00 AM
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Chapter 8 is a revised version of Mayo, P. (2010), Adult Learning, Instruction and Programme Planning A Freirean Perspective, in Penelope Peterson, Eva Baker and Barry McGaw (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, Volume 1, pp. 31 5. Oxford: Elsevier. Chapter 9 is a revised and whittled down version of Mayo, P. (2007), Critical Approaches to Education in the Work of Lorenzo Milani and Paulo Freire, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 525 44. Chapter 10 is a slightly revised version of the paper Mayo, P. (2001), Julius Nyerere (1922 1999) and Education A Tribute, International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 193 202. Chapter 11 is a revised and much amplified version of Mayo, P. (2010), Obituary Dr Paula Allman, Policy Futures in Education, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 661 2. Chapter 13 originally appeared as Mayo, P. (2010), Striving Against the Eclipse of Democracy Henry A. Giroux s Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice, Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, No. 3, pp. 254 82. ix 9781441118172_FM_Rev_txt_prf.indd ix 6/14/2001 11:54:00 AM
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