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Comprised of 230 entries written by 104 international scholars well-known in the field, this is the definitive resource on one of the most influential educators of the second half of the last century. The entries are more properly themes (or using Freirean language, generative themes) from Paulo Freire’s work and include: Action-Reflection, Alienation, Otherness , Illiteracy, Activism, the Classroom, Autonomy, Authority, Authoritarianism, Evaluation, Citizenship, Culture circles, Social class, Coherence, Trust, Knowledge/knowing, Contradiction, Conflict, Popular culture, Epistemological curiosity, Decency, Human rights, Ecology, Professional education, State, Ethics, Exile, Existence, Experience, Family, Feminism, Phenomenology, Globalization, Indignation, Intersubjectivity, Cultural invasion, Interdisciplinarity, Freedom, Liberation Theology, Leadership, Marx/Marxism, Modernity/Post-modernity, Human nature, Participation, Pedagogy, Praxis, Teacher, Racism, Rigor/rigorousness (Methodological), Transcendence, Utopia, Violence, Ontological vocation.

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Author:   Danilo R. Streck ,  Euclides Redin ,  Jaime José Zitkoski ,  Carlos Alberto Torres
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 18.30cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 26.20cm
Weight:   1.188kg
ISBN:  

9781442216563

ISBN 10:   1442216565
Pages:   490
Publication Date:   18 October 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition Fifty Years after Angicos: Paulo Freire, Popular Education, and the Struggle for a Better World That Is Possible, by Carlos Alberto Torres Preface Entries Authors Paulo Freire: A Brief Intellectual Map 1 Words and Concepts Paulo Freire Bibliography, by Ana Maria de Araújo Friere Index About the Editors

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Paulo Freire was paramount seminal thinker, philosopher, pedagogue, and theologian, a canonic practitioner of the art of education, for whom the word that spells the truth is 'pregnant with the world.' Nothing would have pleased him (and the privileged readers of this volume) more than an encyclopedia containing those words in labor. This 'dictionary,' as it is called in the original Portuguese edition, is nothing short of an authoritative inventory of pedagogical building blocks. The editors and over a hundred international scholars collected and explained them offering the bricks through which other scholars and educators will 'reinvent,' construct (not simply to repeat Freire, as he would insist) to give birth to another world that is possible. -- Vitor Westhelle, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago The Paulo Freire Encyclopedia is an essential resource for all those interested in the field of education. With over 230 entries prepared by over 100 contributors, this book provides a fantastic opportunity to access Freire's educational, political and philosophical ideas through his words, expressions and concepts. Such a herculean and comprehensive effort took a decade to assemble, but it was worth the wait! We have in front of us a unique and invaluable contribution to the literature on Freire. -- Daniel Schugurensky, University of Arizona The work of Paulo Freire is more urgent today than at any other time. The Paulo Freire Dictionary is an indispensable weapon with which to fight the ravages of contemporary neoliberal capitalism, the transnational capitalist class and the destruction of the human spirit. -- Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles

Paulo Freire was paramount seminal thinker, philosopher, pedagogue, and theologian, a canonic practitioner of the art of education, for whom the word that spells the truth is 'pregnant with the world.' Nothing would have pleased him (and the privileged readers of this volume) more than an encyclopedia containing those words in labor. This 'dictionary,' as it is called in the original Portuguese edition, is nothing short of an authoritative inventory of pedagogical building blocks. The editors and over a hundred international scholars collected and explained them offering the bricks through which other scholars and educators will 'reinvent,' construct (not simply to repeat Freire, as he would insist) to give birth to another world that is possible. -- Vitor Westhelle, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago The Paulo Freire Encyclopedia is an essential resource for all those interested in the field of education. With over 230 entries prepared by over 100 contributors, this book provides a fantastic opportunity to access Freire's educational, political and philosophical ideas through his words, expressions and concepts. Such a herculean and comprehensive effort took a decade to assemble, but it was worth the wait! We have in front of us a unique and invaluable contribution to the literature on Freire. -- Daniel Schugurensky, University of Arizona The work of Paulo Freire is more urgent today than at any other time. The Paulo Freire Encyclopedia is an indispensable weapon with which to fight the ravages of contemporary neoliberal capitalism, the transnational capitalist class and the destruction of the human spirit. -- Peter McLaren, Honorary Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Critical Studies, Northeast Normal University, China This dictionary, written by three professors and professor emeritus from Latin American universities, provides encyclopedic entries for all of the key terms used in Freire's key texts and writings. All terms are related to education by many present political, sociological, and humanitarian concepts as well, including Alienation, Illiteracy, Culture Circles, Contradiction, Epistemological Curiosity, Feminism, Phenomenology, Globalization, Marx/Marxism, and Utopia. Each definition is several pages in length and includes references. They are written in a scholarly manner that will be most useful to graduate level students and above studying education, philosophy, and critical pedagogy. Although a highly specialized work in the field of education, this title provides detailed definitions that will be difficult to find in other sources. American Reference Books Annual

Paulo Freire was paramount seminal thinker, philosopher, pedagogue, and theologian, a canonic practitioner of the art of education, for whom the word that spells the truth is 'pregnant with the world.' Nothing would have pleased him (and the privileged readers of this volume) more than an encyclopedia containing those words in labor. This 'dictionary,' as it is called in the original Portuguese edition, is nothing short of an authoritative inventory of pedagogical building blocks. The editors and over a hundred international scholars collected and explained them offering the bricks through which other scholars and educators will 'reinvent,' construct (not simply to repeat Freire, as he would insist) to give birth to another world that is possible. -- Vincent Westhelle, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

Author Information

Danilo R. Streck is professor at the Graduate School of Education at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), in the Porto Alegre metropolitan area, Brazil. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Siegen (Germany), University of Toronto (Canada), and Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), and visiting scholar at the Latin American Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Euclides Redin is professor emeritus from the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos. Jaime José Zitkoski professor at the Graduate School of Education at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, where his research is focused on social movements, work and education.

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