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Literacy : reading the word & the world

Title
Literacy : reading the word & the world / Paulo Freire & Donaldo Macedo ; foreword by Ann E. Berthoff ; introduction by Henry A. Giroux.
Author
Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997.
Publication
South Hadley, Mass. : Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Macedo, Donaldo P. (Donaldo Pereira), 1950-
  • Berthoff, Ann E.
  • Giroux, Henry A.
Description
xxiii, 184 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Critical studies in education series
Uniform Title
Critical studies in education series.
Subject
  • Literacy
  • Reading
  • Elementary education of adults
  • Education > Political aspects
  • Reading
  • Educational Status
  • literacy
  • Education > Political aspects
  • Elementary education of adults
  • Literacy
  • Alphabetisierung
  • Erwachsenenbildung
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 179) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Literacy and the pedagogy of political empowerment / Henry A. Giroux -- The importance of the act of reading -- Adult literacy and popular libraries -- Rethinking literacy : a dialogue -- The people speak their word : literacy in action -- Literacy in Guinea-Bissau revisited -- The illiteracy of literacy in the United States -- Literacy and critical pedagogy -- Appendix : Letter to Mario Cabral.
ISBN
  • 0897891260
  • 9780897891264
  • 0897891252
  • 9780897891257
LCCN
87010295
OCLC
  • ocm15521446
  • 15521446
  • SCSB-8906382
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library