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Radical Heroes - Gramsci, Freire and the Poitics of Adult Education (Hardcover)
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Radical Heroes - Gramsci, Freire and the Poitics of Adult Education (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the History of Education
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First Published in 1998. This book examines the ideas of two of the
most controversial radical heroes of adult education, Antonio
Gramsci and Paulo Freire, gauging their significance for the
development of a radical politics of adult education in the
post-Soviet, post-apartheid new world order. Gramsci offers a noble
vision of the role of adult education in the creation of
revolutionary Marxist hegemony; but the cause he lived and died for
has all but collapsed. Nevertheless, his distinction between common
sense and good sense, his theory of the intellectual and his
concept of hegemony bear scrutiny today. In Freire's pedagogy of
the oppressed, the relationship between leader and followed,
teacher and student, is problematic and this book questions whether
his pedagogy has the liberating potential he envisioned. The author
considers and rejects the linkage of Gramsci's and Freire's ideas
in the adult education literature. Nonetheless, Gramsci and Freire
have huge symbolic importance as radical heroes in an
under-theorized and marginalised field. The study highlights a
problem with the radical hero phenomenon: when individuals become
icons, their ideas cease to be open, and new insights do not emerge
as challenge becomes inadmissible and debate dies. While neither
Gramsci nor Freire can provide us with answers, Gramsci helps us
address the difficult questions of purpose and content in the
politics of adult education.
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