186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

On the occasion of the centennial of Paulo Freire’s birth in September 2021 and of fifty years since the initial publication of his seminal work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed , this book focuses on how scholars continue to reinvent his work across geographic and thematic contexts. Reinvention is specifically used because Freire vehemently opposed simply repeating his work, calling on scholars to... Read more

Introduction (1 of 2)—Reinventing: Essence and usefulness of Freire’s work for the past and next 100 years

Greg William Misiaszek

Introduction (2 of 2)—After the party: In the luminous residuals, finding ourselves anew

Lauren Ila Misiaszek

Response to Greg’s Introduction— Flash nonfiction: Light/questioning

Lauren Ila Misiaszek

Response to Lauren’s Introduction: Reinventions as brightly glowing illuminations

Greg William Misiaszek

1. Paulo Freire: Voices and silences

Carlos Alberto Torres

2. Power to the people: Education for social change in the philosophies of Paulo Freire and Mozi

Yann-Ru Ho and Wei-Chieh Tseng

3. We made the road for walking and now we must run: Paulo Freire, the Black Radical Tradition, and the inroads to make beyond racial capitalism

Michael Joseph Viola

4. Is refugee education indeed educational? The Freirean perspective to refugee education beyond humanitarian, rights, or development rationale

Subin Sarah Yeo and Sung-Sang Yoo

5. Freire 2.0: Pedagogy of the digitally oppressed

Antony Farag, Luke Greeley and Andrew Swindell

6. Reinventing Paulo Freire’s pedagogy in Finnish non-formal education: The case of Life Skills for All model

Juha Suoranta, Nina Hjelt, Tuukka Tomperi and Anna Grant

7. Reconsidering architectural education based on Freire’s ideas in Iraqi Kurdistan

Hozan L. Rauf and Sardar S. Sharee

8. A contribution to Paulo Freire’s theory and practice: The ‘Cultural Extension Service/University of Recife’ (1962–64)

Heinz Peter Gerhardt

9. Understanding colonialism and fostering a decolonizing emancipatory education through Paulo Freire

Peter Mayo

10. Freireian and Ubuntu philosophies of education: Ontoepistemological characteristics and pedagogical intersections

Ali A. Abdi

11. An ecopedagogical, ecolinguistical reading of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): What we have learned from Paulo Freire

Greg William Misiaszek

12. Salutations: An epilogue in letters

Lauren Ila Misiaszek

Biography

Greg William Misiaszek is Assistant Professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education in the Instuste of Educational Theories, and Associate Director, Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA. He is Editor of Freire in Focus book series and is currently editing Encyclopaedia of Environmental Education. His books include Freire and Environmentalism:Ecopedagogy (2023), Ecopedagogy: Critical Environmental Teaching for Planetary Justice and Global Sustainable Development (2020), and Educating the Global Environmental Citizen: Understanding Ecopedagogy in Local and Global Contexts (2018). 

Lauren Ila Misiaszek is Associate Professor at the Institute of International and Comparative Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, China. She is immediate past Secretary General of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, a past Associate Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA, and Fellow and Founding Member of the International Network on Gender, Social Justice and Praxis.