The well-known Brazilian educator Paulo Freire has stimulated educators, lecturers and scholars in a wide tapestry of contexts and international locations, as he challenged traditional pondering on how academics should train and beginners should study. through making his rules available and suitable, this insightful and thought-provoking textual content attracts out the relevance and topicality of Freire’s paintings and applies this to a variety of academic settings, from grownup schooling, via colleges, to early years settings.

Themes coated include:

• the lasting impression of illiteracy;


• the merits and power in turning into literate;


• literacy, language and power;


• the alterations among banking and dialogic education;


• the social and political nature of learning.


• what type of instructing and studying will we want?

Using various sensible examples and case experiences, Introducing Freire is a necessary consultant to the paintings of 1 of the main major figures in schooling within the final century. interesting and available, this publication is for someone attracted to educating and studying, poverty and affluence, strength and powerlessness, and society and change.