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Named Person: | Paulo Freire; Paulo Freire |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paulo Freire; Carman St John Hunter |
ISBN: | 9781474268929 1474268927 |
OCLC Number: | 1002282327 |
Notes: | Translation of Cartas ̉ Guiň-Bissau. "This translation first published 1978 by Seabury Press"--Title page verso. |
Description: | xi, 154 pages ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Foreword by Jonathan KozolIntroductionThe Letters to Guinea-BissauPostscriptFinal WordNotes |
Series Title: | Bloomsbury revelations. |
Other Titles: | Cartas ̉ Guiň-Bissau. |
Responsibility: | Paulo Freire ; translated by Carman St. John Hunter. |
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The book, for which these letters provide both core and rationale, will not only broaden the already substantial audience for Freire's work. It will also clarify his views and humanize the man himself ... apart from all else, the book provides the best, most idiomatic English version of his writing to date ... The conversational tone made possible by an exchange of correspondence provides, for the first time, an appropriate metaphor for the man who has made 'dialogue' almost a synonym for 'education'. Pedagogy in Process is, therefore - while not his classic work - unquestionably his most accessible. By my own taste, it is also his most powerful - and human. * From the Foreword by Jonathan Kozol * Read more...

