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Paulo Freire: Books at OISE Library

Selected Books by Paulo Freire at OISE Library

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.1 F866P 2000
Publication Date: 2000
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated into English in 1970. The methodology developed by Freire in this book has had a significant impact on educational theory and has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world.
Cultural action for freedom by Paulo Freire
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.91724 F866C
Publication Date: 1970
In this book, Freire argues that there is no neutral education: education exists either for oppression and conditioning or for freedom. By contrast, a core feature of Freire's methodology involves engaging the "culture of silence" and encouraging the oppressed to subvert this socio-historical conditioning. This book focuses on two areas of education for cultural action and freedom: adult literacy and conscientization.
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire; Myra B. Ramos (Translator); Paulo Freire
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.19098 F866E
Publication Date: 1973
This book contains the English translations of two of Freire's essays, "Education as the Practice of Freedom" and "Extension or Communication." These essays grew out of Freire's work in adult literacy in Brazil and place literacy and education within a framework of oppression. Freire argues that equality cannot exist in non-reciprocal relationships: instead, the student and the teacher are liberated when they both begin to learn.
Pedagogy in process : the letters to Guinea-Bissau by Paulo Freire
Call Number: OISE Stacks 374.96657 F866P
Publication Date: 1978
Translated from the original Portuguese, this books contains the text of letters written by Freire from january 1975 to spring 1976. The correspondence between Freire, in exile in Geneva, and educators in the then-new nation of Guinea-Bissau deal with subjects related to Freire's ideas and the development of a literacy program for newly liberated peoples, and provide insight into the character of Paulo Freire as a person.
The Politics of Education by Paulo Freire; Donaldo P. Macedo; Henry A. Giroux (Introduction by)
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.19 F866P
Publication Date: 1985
This book contributes to a radical formulation of pedagogy through its revitalization of language, utopianism, and revolutionary message. Freire has managed to replace the melancholic and despairing discourse of the post-modern Left with possibility and human compassion.
Literacy: reading the word & the world by Paulo Freire; Donaldo P. Macedo; Ann E. Berthoff (Foreword by); Henry A. Giroux (Introduction by)
Call Number: OISE Stacks 302.2 F866L
Publication Date: 1987
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 change. This book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning. Every chapter asks teachers to think again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils, and how to get on with it.
We Make the Road by Walking: conversations on education and social change by Myles Horton; Paulo Freire; Brenda Bell (Editor); John Gaventa (Editor)
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.19 H823W
Publication Date: 1990
This book explores the use of participatory education in bringing about social change. Arranged in the form of a written conversation, it provides an intimate view of two men who based their work upon the belief that a good education required three basic elements: love for people, respect for people's abilities to shape their own lives, and the capacity to value others' experiences.
Pedagogy of the City by Paulo Freire; D. Macedo (Translator); Ronald Reynolds (Introduction by)
Call Number: OISE Stacks 371.01098161 F866P
Publication Date: 1993
This book contains a series of interviews that took place during Freire's leadership at the Municipal Bureau of Education in São Paulo. These interviews address the role of public education and support Freire's belief that education must play a role in reforming democratic society. Through these interviews, Freire looks to respond to the crisis in public schooling which places the poor at a disadvantage.
Pedagogy of Hope by Paulo Freire
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.1 F8662P
Publication Date: 1994
With Pedagogy of Hope, Freire explores his best-known analytical themes with even deeper understanding and a greater wisdom. Freire's abiding concern for social justice and education in the developing world remains as timely and as inspiring as ever, and is shaped by both his rigorous intellect and his boundless compassion. In this book, we come to understand Freire's liberationist pedagogical thinking even better, through the critical seriousness, humanistic objectivity, and engaged subjectivity which, in all of Freire's books, are always wedded to a unique creative innovativeness.
Pedagogy of Freedom: ethics, democracy, and civic courage by Paulo Freire; Patrick Clarke (Translator); Stanley Aronowitz (Foreword by); Donaldo P. Macedo (Foreword by)
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.115 F866P
Publication Date: 1998
In Pedagogy of Freedom, Paulo Freire travels deeper into the territory where learning and activism are the essence of human life. This book shows why an engaged way of learning and teaching is central to the creation of the individual, culture, and history. Freire argues that education cannot be indifferent to the reproduction of dominant ideologies and the interrogation of them, and shows why an acceptance of fatalism leads to the loss of personal and societal freedom and how those individuals who think without optimism have lost their place in history.
Pedagogy of Indignation by Paulo Freire
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.115 F866Pi
Publication Date: 2004
The last book written by Paulo Freire before his death, Pedagogy of Indignation addresses the necessity of making and remaking one's self throughout a lifetime, the role of education in personal development, and the daily life tensions between freedom and authority. Freire argues for a pedagogy of indignation as an antidote to nihilism, hopelessness, and cynicism fostered in hegemonic systems. Everyone, he says, must stay aware and awake, indignant that injustice remains unquestioned and accepted in the world.
Teachers as Cultural Workers by Paulo Freire; Donaldo Macedo (Translator); Dale Koike (Translator); Alexandre Oliveira (Translator); Ana Maria Araújo Freire (Foreword by)
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.1 F866T 2005
Publication Date: 2005
In this book, Freire speaks directly to teachers about the lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist. Freire’s words challenge all who teach to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning. A teacher's success depends on a permanent commitment to learning and training. By recognising the different roads students take in order to learn, teachers will also rebuild their own paths of curiosity, opening the doors to habits of learning that will benefit everyone in the classroom.
Daring to Dream by Paulo Freire; Alexandre K. Oliveira (Translator); Ana Maria Araújo Freire (Prepared for Publication by); Donaldo Macedo (Editor); Peter Park (Foreword by); Ana Lucia Souza de Frietas (Foreword by)
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.115 F866D
Publication Date: 2007
In this book, Freire urges students, parents, and teachers to discover new horizons of hope and possibility for a better world. Connecting the personal with the political, Freire guides the reader through the everyday acts of observation and critical thinking that link personal creativity with the prospects of a just and more humane world. Freire's liberating pedagogy resists forms of fatalism reproduced in traditional education discourses that too often mechanize the act of knowing. One's capacity to dream, to reach, and to engage with a troubled world are the essence of a meaningful and liberatory pedagogy.

More books by Freire at the OISE Library

Selected Books about Paulo Freire and Critical Pedagogy at OISE Library

Freire and Education by Antonia Darder
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.1 D216F
Publication Date: 2015
One of the most influential educational philosophers of our times, Paulo Freire contributed to a revolutionary understanding of education as an empowering and democratizing force in the lives of the disenfranchised. In this introduction to Paulo Freire and his ideas, Antonia Darder reflects on how Freire's work has influenced her own life practices and thinking as an educator and activist and includes a never-before published dialogue with Freire himself.
Introducing Freire: a guide for students, teachers, and practitioners by Sandra Smidt
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.1 S639i
Publication Date: 2014
Brazilian educator Paulo Freire has influenced educators, teachers and students in a broad tapestry of contexts and countries, challenging conventional thinking on how teachers ought to teach and learners ought to learn. Themes covered in this book include: the lasting impact of illiteracy, the benefits and potential in becoming literate, the differences between banking and dialogic education, and the social and political nature of learning.
Paulo Freire Encyclopedia by Danilo R. Streck (Editor); Euclides Redin (Editor); Jaime José Zitkoski (Editor); Carlos Alberto Torres (Foreword by)
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.92 P331
Publication Date: 2012
With 230 entries written by 104 international scholars, this is the definitive resource on one of the most influential educators of the second half of the last century. The entries address themes such as: Action-Reflection, Alienation, Illiteracy, Autonomy, Citizenship, Knowledge/knowing, Conflict, Human rights, Ethics, Existence, Family, Feminism, Globalization, Freedom, Leadership, Participation, Pedagogy, Racism, Transcendence, Utopia, and Violence.
Paulo Freire by Daniel Schugurensky
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.1 C762 v.16
Publication Date: 2011
This book is part of a multi-volume set profiling key contributions to educational philosophy. In this volume, Schugurensky provides a clear and concise introduction to the life, work, and ideas of Paulo Freire. As with the other volumes in this series, this book is organised into four chapters: intellectual biography, critical exposition of the author's work, reception and influence of that work, and contemporary relevance.
Paulo Freire by Asoke Bhattacharya
Call Number: OISE Stacks 370.1 B575P
Publication Date: 2011
This book is a comprehensive, detailed account of the historical, economic, and social context of one of the most influential educational philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. Bhattacharya provides a critique of all the major works of Paulo Freire.