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Teachers as Cultural Workers Letters to Those Who Dare Teach with New Commentary by Peter McLaren, Joe L. Kincheloe, and Shirley Steinberg

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ISBN-10: 0813343291

ISBN-13: 9780813343297

Edition: 1998 (Expanded)

Authors: Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo, Dale Koike, Alexandre Oliveira, Ana Maria Ara�jo Freire

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Upon its recent publication in Portuguese, Paulo Freire's newest book, Teachers as Cultural Workers, became an instant success. This English translation is sure to meet with similar acclaim. Here, Freire speaks directly to teachers about the lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist. No other book so cogently explains the implications for classroom practice of Freire's latest ideas and the pathbreaking theories found in Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other treatises. This book challenges all who teach to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning. Freire shows why a teacher's success depends on a…    
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Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

The late Paulo Freire, of Brazil, is perhaps the most influential education writer of our times. His many books, which include the classics Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Pedagogy of Freedom, have been translated into more than 40 languages.

Preface : a pedagogy for life
First words : a pedagogical trap
First letter : reading the world/reading the word
Second letter : don't let the fear of what is difficult paralyze you
Third letter : I came into the teacher training program because I had no other options
Fourth letter : on the indispensable qualities of progressive teachers for their better performance
Fifth letter : the first day of school
Sixth letter : on the relationship between the educator and the learners
Seventh letter : from talking to learners to talking to them and with them; from listening to learners to being heard by them
Eighth letter : cultural identity and education
Ninth letter : concrete context/theoretical context
Tenth letter : once more the question of discipline
Last words : to know and to grow - everything yet to see