A foundational text of critical pedagogy, it has sold nearly 1 million copies worldwide (78,000 of our Penguin edition published in 1996)Paulo Freire has helped empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world, with particular urgency in the United States and Western Europe since publication in English in 1970The book's message - that our systems of education keep the poor powerless - still rings true today and will appeal to readers of Owen Jones and Paul MasonPaulo Freire (1921-1997) was a revolutionary Brazilian educational theorist. Heavily influenced by Hegel as well as Marxist and anti-colonialist thinkers, Freire promoted the liberation of the working classes through a cooperative teacher-student educative model.A transformative textTruly revolutionaryBrilliant methodology of a highly charged and politically provocative character
'The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression ... a transformative text' George Monbiot, Guardian
Arguing that 'education is freedom', Paulo Freire's radical international classic contends that traditional teaching styles keep the poor powerless by treating them as passive, silent recipients of knowledge. Grounded in Freire's own experience teaching impoverished and illiterate students in his native Brazil and over the world, this pioneering book instead suggests that through co-operation, dialogue and critical thinking, every human being can develop a sense of self and fulfil their right to be heard.
'Truly revolutionary' Ivan Illich
