The Wiley handbook of Paulo Freire
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The Wiley handbook of Paulo Freire Carlos Alberto Torres (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, 2019, 624 pp. Wiley Handbooks in Education series. ISBN 978-1-119-23671-9 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-119-23676-4 (eBook) Heinz‑Peter Gerhardt1
© UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and Springer Nature B.V. 2020
The Wiley Handbook of Paulo Freire (1921–1997) is part of the Wiley Handbooks in Education series, which aims “to set the intellectual agenda for scholars, students, and researchers” (p. ii). This book is the first in the series to tackle a single educator and his work instead of spanning an academic discipline. The editor, Carlos Alberto Torres, an avid re-inventor of Freire, co-founded the Paulo Freire Institute in São Paulo in 1992. Today, he is a distinguished professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Director of the UCLA Paulo Freire Institute; he also holds the UNESCO Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education. For this handbook, Torres assembled a fine team of around 40 scholars who uphold Freire’s philosophy of education, representing, to a certain extent, the geographical spaces in which the Brazilian educator’s ideas have attained an ever-growing influence and still carry momentum today. The handbook is organised into five parts. Part I, entitled “History and context of a global public intellectual” consists solely of the introduction. The editor situates Freire’s legacy in the Latin America of the 1960s, an epoch during which the continent became “the laboratory for a new society” (p. 4). Part II, entitled “From Recife to the world: Paulo Freire, pilgrim of utopia”, describes Freire’s trajectory after leaving Brazil as well as his reception in different parts of the world. Chapter 1 by Moacir Gadotti contains a brief overview of “Freire’s intellectual and political journey”. In chapter 2, Carlos Rodriguez Brandão, in his position as an elder statesman in the field, contributes to a “historical memory” (p. 51) of the “dedicated autodidact” (p. 56) Freire of the 1940s and 1950s. Bruno B. Costa’s chapter 3 analyses Freire in a time of intellectual and political fervour between two major philosophical and political tendencies: pro-enlightenment and pro-romanticism (p. 68). Notably, his chapter reflects, in a foreshadowing manner, the current rise of populist tendencies in Brazil, the United States (US) and many European countries. Costa’s * Heinz‑Peter Gerhardt heinz‑[email protected] 1
School of Education, University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China
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line of thought is reiterated in chapter 4, an artistic collage by Peter Lownds, who describes Freire as a “socialist of the heart” (p. 91), likening him to thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and William Morris. In chapter 5, Marcela Gajardo portrays Freire’s praxis1 during his second exile in Chile, describes in detail Freire’s work as a scholar and practitioner, the process of Freire becoming a Marxist and the political climate in which Freire wrote his most famous bo
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