Pedagogy of the City

Paulo Freire

Continuum, 1993 - Education - 168 pages

An important look at education and the urban poor, and a continuation of the experiments in education of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire describes the everyday struggles, political as well as administrative, fought in the urban schools of Sao Paulo during Freire's recent 10-year tenure as minister of education.

Contents

• Preliminary Considerations: 7
• Part: 13
• To Change the Face of Schools: 21

About the author

Paulo Freire is one of the most widely read educational philosophers and practitioners in the world today, except in the United States, where he remains relatively unknown to many in the educational community as well as the general public. Freire received international acclaim and notoriety with his first and best-known work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, first published in English in 1970. His teachings draw much of their inspiration from a Marxist critique of society; for this reason he was forced into exile from his native Brazil in 1964, and his works were banned in many developing nations. His pedagogy for adult literacy has been implemented successfully in several African nations and has been the basis for literacy crusades in Nicaragua and other Latin American countries. His philosophical approach to education forms the basis for much of the critical theory work in education now taking place in the United States, Europe, and developing nations.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Pedagogy of the City
• Author: Paulo Freire
• Translated by: D. Macedo
• Publisher: Continuum, 1993
• Original from: University of Texas
• Digitized: Nov 6, 2007
• ISBN: 0826406122, 9780826406125
• Length: 168 pages