/library/oar/handle/123456789/78246 2025-12-25T05:43:22Z 2025-12-25T05:43:22Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/86516 2022-01-11T10:14:09Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Postcolonial Directions in Education : volume 10 : issue 2 Editors: Hickling Hudson, Anne; Mayo, Peter Abstract: Table of contents:; 1/ HICKLING HUDSON, A., & MAYO, P. - Editorial introduction : Paulo Freire (1921-2021) : birth centenary special issue; 2/ DARDER, A. - The profound solidarity of Paulo Freire; 3/ SHOR, I. - Paulo Freire before and after the coup : a personal essay; 4/ DOR, T. - Naming Palestine; 5/ TORRES, C. A. - Paulo Freire : a global and cosmopolitan educator. The voice of the Latin American biographer; 6/ GIROUX, H. A. - Paulo Freire's pedagogy of hope revisited in turbulent times; 7/ BARBOSA, I., & LOPES, J. T. - Learning through collective action and social mobilizations in Portugal : dialogues with Paulo Freire's pedagogy; 8/ ACCIOLY, I. - Reinventing Freire's praxis in the fight for life with dignity : theoretical and methodological paths for critical educators; 9/ DOR, T. - In memoriam : bell hooks (Gloria Watkins); 10/ MAYO, P. - Walter Omar Kohan. Paulo Freire : a philosophical biography [book review]

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/86515 2022-01-06T13:33:46Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Editorial introduction : Paulo Freire (1921-2021) : birth centenary special issue Abstract: This final issue for 2021 serves as a tribute to the subaltern and decolonising pedagogical politics of Paulo Freire who was born a century ago. Postcolonial Directions in Education celebrates the stature of this significant Brazilian as a humanist, leading pedagogue and decolonising figure, arguably the most influential educator since John Dewey, and a colossal figure from the majority world. Conferences marking this commemorative year of Freire’s birth centenary were held in several countries. One of these meetings featured both co-editors of this journal. Peter Mayo, the UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education, coordinated the Paulo Freire Birth Centenary Fest held from 6 – 8 December 2021, and Anne Hickling- Hudson participated in the conference as one of the 24 invited speakers. Both have worked closely with Freire’s thought, and have sought to apply his transformative approach to pedagogy and discuss it in their writing. [excerpt]

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Darder, Antonia /library/oar/handle/123456789/86513 2022-01-06T12:59:14Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The profound solidarity of Paulo Freire Authors: Darder, Antonia Abstract: In this paper, Antonia Darder refers to her first face to face meeting with Paulo Freire while attending a conference as a graduate student. She describes Freire as someone who conveyed a deep sense of love, hope and dignity to the people he encountered on his path, in ways that opened them up and made them feel loved and appreciated. In this discussion, Freire’s love is understood not as romantic or sentimental, but rather as politicizing and humanising; a love imbued with a profound sense of solidarity with others and a commitment to revolutionary struggle. She notes Freire's continuing relevance in a world characterized by the great economic disparities of capitalism, including dire inequalities of health care and life opportunities in these pandemic times. This points to a colonizing, neoliberal world that throws into sharp relief its deadly and discriminatory nature where everything is left to the vagaries of the marketplace and any semblance of public safeguards are systematically. undone. Darder notes that even in the midst of such struggle, Freire’s pedagogy conveys an abiding sense of hope and faith for grassroots democratic struggles. As examples, recent movements in Chile and India are cited as collective efforts that inspire hope and possibility. In so doing, she foregrounds Freire's faith in progressive social movements as significant to the large political project for economic democracy and educational justice.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Shor, Ira /library/oar/handle/123456789/86512 2022-01-06T12:59:02Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Paulo Freire before and after the coup : a personal essay Authors: Shor, Ira Abstract: This paper provides a first person account of a personal relationship between the author and Paulo Freire which culminated in a ‘talking book’, as Freire calls such books, between the two. It captures Freire’s feelings about the unleashing of the state’s repressive forces to stem the groundswell of activism, which includes education, and critical literacy, for which Paulo Freire was a catalyst. In so doing, the military intervention was intended to halt the momentum in a country roused for social transformation. This, for Freire and others, is a crime against democracy and humanity, for which the perpetrators should be brought to justice, as he imagined would be the case when the totalitarian and murderous military regime in Argentina, under the command of General Galtieri, collapsed in the aftermath of the defeat in the war concerning the Falkands/Malvinas in 1982.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z