The Student Guide to Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'

"We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Darder for brilliantly and accessibly introducing Freire’s central ideas to a new generation and steering them to struggle for emancipatory education and education for liberation in these troubled times. -- Salim Vally, Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Antonia Darder, in this volume, re-affirms her sublime standing as second to none among the radical critical public intellectuals. The volume is a fine example of a superlative and inspirational hermeneutic exfoliation of the decolonial veins advocated in Paulo Freire’s grand oeuvre. In a razor-sharp style, Antonia Darder bursts without contemplation against some of the left intellectual laziness - quite lost in celebratory readings – and advances a unique ‘ana-dialectical’ interpretation of the ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ towering arguments, reinventing the matrix of critical thinking and action, thus re-situating Paulo Freire’s rationale at the epicenter of the debate for a socially, cognitive and intergenerationally just education. The volume exposes a non-derivative way to excavate the ‘word and the world,’ challenging the monumentality of a dominant eugenic reason in such a tantalizing and magnificent way only within the reach of a superb organic intellectual like Antonia Darder, undeniably the great contemporary neo-Gramscian figure in education. A timely second edition under the contemporary absurdity of the normalized dehumanization we face under the third hegemonic phase of global neoliberalism. -- João M. Paraskeva, Professor of Education, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK At a contemporary juncture when Freire’s insights and approach are more relevant than ever, this book provides rich, carefully curated, invaluable resources for students’ and teachers’ engagement with Freirean thinking and philosophy. Darder challenges us all to fearlessly reflect on our own praxis, in the spirit of authentic human liberation. -- Tom G. Griffiths, Professor of International Education and Development, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway This already is my first choice for any students or fellow scholars who I support, and who are seeking to understand and engage with Freire and his key work for either for the first time or who are seeking to understand in further detail the wider purpose and legacy of Freire’s work and ideas. -- Keith Smyth, Professor of Pedagogy, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK Essential reading for those who would like to have a better understanding of Paulo Freire’s ""Pedagogy of the Oppressed"". -- Feng Su, Associate Professor of Education, Liverpool Hope University, UK"