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Literacy : reading the word & the world

Paulo Freire & Donaldo Macedo

(Critical studies in education series)

Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987

  • pbk.

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Bibliography: p. 179

Includes index

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Description

Freire and Macedo analyse the connection between literacy and politics according to whether it produces existing social relations, or introduces a new set of cultural practices that promote democratic and emancipatory change.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction Literacy and the Pedagogy of Political Empowerment, Henry A.Giroux
  • Chapter 1 The Importance of the Act of Reading
  • Chapter 2 Adult Literacy and Popular Libraries
  • Chapter 3 Rethinking Literacy: A Dialogue
  • Chapter 4 The People Speak Their Word: Literacy in Action
  • Chapter 5 Literacy in Guinea-Bissau Revisited
  • Chapter 6 The Illiteracy of Literacy in the United States
  • Chapter 7 Literacy and Critical Pedagogy

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