UID:
almafu_9959229941702883
Format:
1 online resource (265 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4696-0630-5
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0-8078-9953-4
Content:
In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970's), and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980). This political biography of Paulo Freire (1921-97), who played a crucial role in shaping international literacy education, also presents a thoughtful examination of the volatile politics of literacy during the Cold War.A native of Brazil's impoverished northeast, Freire developed adult
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Paulo Freire and the Twentieth-Century Drive for Development; 1 Entering History; 2 The Revolution that Wasn't and the Revolution that Was in Brazil, 1961-1964; 3 Reformist Chile, Peasant Consciousness, and the Meaning of Christian Democracy, 1964-1969; 4 Paulo Freire and the World Council of Churches in the First and Third Worlds, 1969-1980; 5 The Sandinistas and the Last Utopian Experiment of the Cold War, 1979-1980; 6 The Long, Slow Transition to Democracy in Brazil and the End(?) of Utopia, 1980-1997
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Epilogue: Legacies of a Cold War Intellectual in a Post-Cold War World Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4696-2224-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-3419-X
Language:
English
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