Paulo Freire again: What’s so special about 'critical education,' especially today?

Returning to Freire’s work for a follow-up program, Jacques explores with some more depth some of the principles underlying his approach as well as some of the sources of his thinking and several of the areas in which his approach has been and continuous to be applied. As so often in Think Again, there’s an argument to reconsider some of the ways in which education and other community programs and approaches have historically been applied – before they became ‘outcomes’ to be ‘delivered’ after the neo-liberal genie has been let out of the ideological bottle of our late-capitalist political-economy.Some resources:Freire, P. (1972) Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Harmondsworth: Penguin. Freire, P. (1995) Pedagogy of Hope. Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed, New York: Continuum. Freire, P. (1996) Letters to Cristina. Reflections on my life and work, London: Routledge. Gadotti, M. (1994) Reading Paulo Freire. His life and work, New York: SUNY Press. Clear presentation of Freire's thinking set in historical context written by a close collaborator.Torres, C. A. (1993) 'From the "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" to "A Luta Continua": the political pedagogy of Paulo Freire' in P. McLaren and P. Leonard (eds.) Freire: A critical encounter, London: Routledge.Lesley Bentley - Paulo Freire. Brief biography plus lots of useful links.Paulo Freire Institute - a wide range of material available about current work in the Freirian tradition. Click for the English version.           Daniel Schugurensky on Freire - consists of a collection of reviews of his books and links to other pages.