ECHOES FROM FREIRE FOR A
CRITICALLY ENGAGED PEDAGOGY
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ECHOES FROM
FREIRE FOR
A CRITICALLY
ENGAGED
PEDAGOGY
PETER MAYO
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Contents
Acknowledgements ............................................................................... vii
FREIREAN CONCEPTS ..................................................................... 1
Chapter 1
Introduction: Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Anniversary Tribute For an Anniversary Series ................ 3
Chapter 2 Freire’s Ideas More Generally: On Whose
Side Are We When We Teach Act? ................................... 9
Chapter 3 Freire on Intellectuals ...................................................... 14
FREIREAN INTERPRETATIONS .................................................... 19
Chapter 4 Reading and Transforming the World
Together: A Freirean Perspective on Education
and Social Movements .................................................... 21
Chapter 5 The Competence Discourse and the Struggle
for Social Agency and Citizenship:
A Freirean Perspective ..................................................... 36
Chapter 6 Critical Literacy and the Development of a
Multi-Ethnic Citizenship: A Freirean
Southern-European Perspective ...................................... 45
Chapter 7 Popular Education and Transformative Research .......... 54
Chapter 8
Adult Learning, Teaching and Programme
Planning: Insights from Freire ........................................ 64
AFFINITIES WITH FREIRE ............................................................. 75
Chapter 9 Paulo Freire and Lorenzo Milani .................................... 77
Chapter 10 Julius Nyerere’s Thinking on Education ........................101
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CONTENTS
FREIREAN INSPIRATION .............................................................. 121
Chapter 11
Critical Pedagogy, Historical Materialism
and Dialectical Thinking: A Tribute to
Paula Allman ................................................................ 123
Chapter 12
Dissidence, Love and Cultural Power:
An Essay on Antonia Darder ........................................132
Chapter 13
Striving Against the Eclipse of Democracy:
Henry A. Giroux’s Critical Pedagogy
for Social Justice ........................................................... 144
Bibliography ........................................................................................171
Author Index ........................................................................................191
Subject Index ...................................................................................... 000
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my wife Josephine Mayo and daughters,
Annemarie Mayo and Cecilia Mayo, for their love and support as
I worked through the various articles that constitute the basis for
this book.
I would like to thank a number of people whose ideas inspired
me to write this book: Paula Allman (late), Federico Batini, Carmel
Borg, Mario Cardona, Mary Darmanin, Antonia Darder, Antonia
De Vita, Leona M. English, Henry A. Giroux, Budd L. Hall, Dip
Kapoor, Margaret Ledwith, Peter McLaren, André Elias Mazawi,
Anna Maria Piussi, students in my MA Adult Education classes at
University of Malta (2008, 2010 cohorts), students in the MA Adult
Education graduate class at University of Seville in 2007, students
in my graduate class at Bogazici University in July 2009, students
in my PGCE classes on Freire from 2009 till 2011, students in my
comparative adult education class at UBC in July 2010, Alessio
Surian, Bruno Schettini (late), Daniel Schugurensky, Shirley
Steinberg, Carlos Alberto Torres and Kenneth Wain.
I also need to acknowledge prior publication of chapters either
in their current or revised form in a number of other outlets, ranging from journals to conference proceedings.
Chapter 1 is based on an article in the Classic Texts Commentary
Series, published as Mayo, P. (2010), ‘Signposts for a Politically
Engaged Pedagogy’, Community Development Journal, Vol. 45,
No. 3, pp. 380–4.
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Chapter 2 is based on a short article, published as Mayo, P.
(2008), ‘Tenth Anniversary of Paulo Freire’s Death. On Whose
Side Are We When We Teach/Act?’, Adult Education and
Development, No. 69, pp. 105–11.
Chapter 3 is based on an entry in Portuguese, published as
Mayo, P. (2010), ‘Intellectuais’, in D. Streck, E. Redin and J. J.
Zitkoski (Eds), Dicionário Paulo Freire, Belo Horizonte: Autêntica
Editora.
Chapter 4 is a revised version of a chapter which first appeared as
Mayo, P. (2008), ‘Reading and Transforming the World Together.
A Freirean Perspective on Education and Social Movements’, in
Revista de stiinte ale educatiei, anul 10, 1(17), pp. 66–8. It provided the basis for a much larger and much more amplified version, which appeared as a co-authored chapter (ch. 10 ) ‘Adult
Education and Social Movements’, in L. English and P. Mayo
(2012), Learning with Adults. A Critical Pedagogical Introduction,
Rotterdam and Taipei: Sense Publishers; it also appeared as an article English, L. and Mayo, P. (2012), ‘Adult Education and Social
Movements: Perspectives from Freire and Beyond’, Educazione
Democratica, Nu. 3, pp. 170–208, also available online: www.educazionedemocratica.it/.
Chapter 5 was previously published as Mayo, P. (2010), ‘The
Competence Discourse in Education and the Struggle for
Social Agency and Critical Citizenship’, International Journal of
Educational Policies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 5–16.
Chapter 6 was originally published in Portuguese as Mayo, P.
(2005), ‘Educação Critica e Desenvolvimento de uma Cidadania
Multi- Étnica. Uma perspective a partir do Sul da Europa’, Revista
Lusófona de Educação, No. 6, pp. 47–54.
Chapter 7 was originally published as Mayo, P. (2010), ‘Popular
Education and Transformative Research’, in Emilio LucioVillegas (Ed.), Transforming/Researching Communities, Xátiva:
Dialogos-Red, ESREA.
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Chapter 8 is a revised version of Mayo, P. (2010), ‘Adult
Learning, Instruction and Programme Planning – A Freirean
Perspective’, in Penelope Peterson, Eva Baker and Barry McGaw
(Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, Volume 1,
pp. 31–5. Oxford: Elsevier.
Chapter 9 is a revised and whittled down version of Mayo, P.
(2007), ‘Critical Approaches to Education in the Work of Lorenzo
Milani and Paulo Freire’, Studies in Philosophy and Education,
Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 525–44.
Chapter 10 is a slightly revised version of the paper Mayo, P.
(2001), ‘Julius Nyerere (1922–1999) and Education – A Tribute’,
International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 21, No. 3,
pp. 193–202.
Chapter 11 is a revised and much amplified version of Mayo, P.
(2010), ‘Obituary Dr Paula Allman’, Policy Futures in Education,
Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 661–2.
Chapter 13 originally appeared as Mayo, P. (2010), ‘Striving
Against the Eclipse of Democracy Henry A. Giroux’s Critical
Pedagogy for Social Justice’, Italian Journal of Sociology of
Education, No. 3, pp. 254–82.
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