The author adopts a holistic approach in exploring the
ontological, epistemological, ethical, and pedagogical dimensions
of Paulo Freire's thought. The book discusses Freire's approach to
adult literacy education and investigates the political,
dialogical, and critical aspects to the multidimensional word in
Freirean theory.
The author outlines and assesses a number of key critiques of
Freire's modernism, concentrating in particular on questions
pertaining to the problem of pedagogical intervention. He responds
at some length to C.A. Bowers, one of Freire's most important and
persistent critics, and finds fault with behaviorist, stage-based
accounts of consciousness raising. The Freirean concept of
conscientization is reinterpreted in light of the postmodern notion
of multiple subjectivities. From this book, Freire emerges as a
complex educational figure: a thinker and teacher deeply committed
to the universalist ideal of humanization, yet also wary of some of
the exaggerated certainties of modernism. His work, for all its
flaws and contradictions, remains highly influential and stands
opposed to technicist and neoliberal tendencies in recent
educational reform initiatives.
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