Product Description: Educators continue to feel the influence of Paulo Freire-now even more than when his work first appeared in the U.S. more than twenty-five years ago. This volume illuminates the recent work of teacher-scholars who take critical pedagogy one step further, demonstrating new ways to connect their fields to classroom practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Here is a book of classroom practice influenced by the late Paulo Freire, who urged educators to teach critically from the bottom up against the myths and inequities imposed from the top down. In a Freirean approach, critical teaching means inviting students to examine all subject matters in depth, not to swallow facts passively...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: What happens when teachers share power with students? In this profound book, Ira Shor—the inventor of critical pedagogy in the United States—relates the story of an experiment that nearly went out of control.Shor provides the reader with a reenactment of one semester that shows what really can happen when one applies the theory and democratizes the classroom...read more

Product Description: Ira Shor is a pioneer in the field of critical education who for over twenty years has been experimenting with learning methods. His work creatively adapts the ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire for North American classrooms...read more

Argues that conservative political administrations have sponsored educational reforms in order to restore their own ideology to the nation's colleges

Product Description: Freire for the Classroom is an anthology of essays by teachers using Paulo Freire's methods in their classrooms. These essays, collected from professional journals, represent some of the best experimental teaching done to adapt Freire's liberatory pedagogy to North American classrooms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this unique book on education, Shor develops teaching theory side-by-side with a political analysis of schooling. Drawing on the work of Paulo Freire, he offers the first practical and theoretical guide to Freirean methods for American classrooms...read more

This book takes the form of a dialogue between the Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire and American educationalist Ira Shor. They explore the relevance and application of Freire's radical educational ideas in the context of the educational systems of advanced industrial societies.