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Paulo Freire: The global legacy

Edited by Michael A. Peters & Tina Besley. Peter Lang, New York, 2015, 604 pp. Counterpoints series, vol. 500, ISBN 978-1-4331-2532-4 (hbk); ISBN 978-1-4331-2531-7 (pbk)

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Notes

  1. An example of a quite harsh criticism was a book by Martin Stauffer (2007) which I happened to review a few years ago (Štrajn 2008). The author claims, as I indicated in my book review, “that Freire’s fame, due to the ‘legend’ which was created in the sixties, was mainly based on one book (The Pedagogy of the Oppressed), which after some time needn’t to be really read anymore.” The book I am reviewing here now offers evidence that Stauffer’s critique (and other similar criticisms) and his “not being read point” are quite exaggerated.

  2. Contributions are written by Peter McLaren, Antonia Darder, Graham Hingangaroa Smith, Peter Roberts, Russell Bishop, Renee Baynes, Eric D. Torres, Débora B. A. Junker and, finally, Mauro Torres Siqueira.

  3. Chapters were written by: Tracey Ollis, Jo Williams, Rob Townsend, Anne Harris, Jorge Jorquera and Lea Campbell, Tim Budge, Si Belkacem Taleb, Alethea Melling and Yasmeen Ali, Júlio Emíllio Diniz-Pereira, Glen Parkes, Holger Nord, Lesley Rameka and Kura Paul-Burke, Alethea Melling and Wajid Khan, Asoka Jayasena and Susila Kumari Embekke, Charlotte Sexton, Glenn Toh, Liz Jackson and, finally, Bradley Hannigan.

  4. Authors are: Rosetta Khalideen, Leon Benade and E. Jayne White, Althea Lambert, Jacob W. Neumann, Jo Williams, M. J. Stuart, Muriel Yuen-Fun Law, Jon Austin, Linda M. Locke, Tracey Ollis, Iti Joyce and Dawn Lawrence, Sonia Maria Chaves Haracemiv and Veronica Branco, Denise Bachega and Joāo dos Santos Carmo and, finaly, Beatriz Lidia Fainholc.

References

  • Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed (M. B. Ramos, Trans.). New York: Herder & Herder.

  • Stauffer, M. (2007). Pädagogik zwischen Idealisierung und Ignoranz. Eine Kritik der Theorie, Praxis und Rezeption Paulo Freires [Pedagogy between idealism and ignorance: A critique of the theory, practice and reception of Paulo Freire]. Bern: Peter Lang.

  • Štrajn, D. (2008). Book review: Martin Stauffer, Pädagogik zwischen Idealisierung und Ignoranz. International Review of Education, 54(2), 279–281.

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Štrajn, D. Paulo Freire: The global legacy. Int Rev Educ 62, 389–391 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-016-9555-8

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