s/t: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach
This last work from internationally respected educator Paulo Freire makes his ideas on education and social ...
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Sep 06, 2011
Angel
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I finished this a couple of days ago, but it took me a while to finally get around to reviewing it. I am giving it three stars, but it is not because it is a bad book. The book can be a bit repetitive, especially if you have read some of Freire's other works, and a few passages can be a little dry. Having said that, there is a lot in this book for teachers and educators to reflect upon. I found myself making notes in my personal journal at various times, jotting down passages and quotes I wanted
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Dec 15, 2008
Nicole
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I know he's supposed to be fantastic, but I wanted to put this book down so many times! At one point he's going on and on about how you can't dismiss an author if you find them hard to read... you have to pick up a dictionary, you have to engage... and all I could think was how much I couldn't stand his writing.
The sentences were the kind that were so long and poetically formed that they required rereading. I wonder how much of this is due to translation?
I just felt that More...
The sentences were the kind that were so long and poetically formed that they required rereading. I wonder how much of this is due to translation?
I just felt that More...
Feb 01, 2011
Laura
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I think I need to add this book to the ones I read yearly. While Friere tends to write in circles, I keep coming back to a few key ideas that he presents, and discovering more as I learn. My favorite letter, the one that transformed my teaching the first time I read it was the one about moving from talking to learners to talking with them and from listening to them to hearing them. I know it comes from a social justice perspective, and maybe it's also social justice in the context of my classroo
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Mar 10, 2009
Rebecca
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Papa Freire tells us that teaching is a political act. This book is about empowering teachers and more importantly empowering students. The author is from Brazil, where class differences are wider and the poor are even more oppressed, but what he has to say rings true. We must understand the background of our students and value their culture and allow them to have a voice.
Jul 16, 2007
Charles
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So far a moving account of the moral obligation all teachers have to confront social injustice and make positive change in the world.
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