Pedagogy in Process presents a first-hand account of the most comprehensive attempt yet to put into practice Paulo Freires theory of education within a real societal setting.
This is essential reading for anyone interested Freires revolutionary ideas on education and the transformative power they hold when applied to society and the classroom..
Those familiar with Freires work will identify his ongoing insistence on the unity between theory and practice, mental and manual work, and past and present experience.
With Freire as collaborator and advisor the government launched a huge grass-roots literacy campaign and this book is Freires memoir of that campaign.
The new government faced the enormous task of educating its citizens.
When Guinea Bissau on the West African coast declared independence in 1973 the rate of illiteracy in its adult population was ninety percent.
Pedagogy in Process presents a first-hand account of the most comprehensive attempt yet to put into practice Paulo Freires theory of education within a real societal setting
