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Teachers as Cultural Workers : Letters to Those Who Dare Teach : Expanded Edition
Outline : Upon its original publication in Portuguese, Paulo Freire's Teachers as Cultural Workers became an instant success. Translated and published in English in 1997 and now reissued in paperback with new essays from leading education scholars, Teachers as Cultural Workers cogently explains the implications for classroom practice of Freire's ideas and the pathbreaking theories found in his classic Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other treatises. In Teachers as Cultural Workers, Freire speaks directly to teachers about the lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist. Freire's words challenge all who teach to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning. He shows why a teacher's success depends on a permanent commitment to learning and training, as part of an ongoing appraisal of classroom practice. By opening themselves to recognition of the different roads students take in order to learn, teachers will become involved in a continual reconstruction of their own paths of curiosity, opening the doors to habits of learning that will benefit everyone in the classroom. In essays new to this edition, well-known and respected educators Peter McLaren, Joe Kincheloe, and Shirley Steinberg add their reflections on the relevance of Freire's work to the study and practice of education across the globe.
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