Research Catalog

Title

Engaging Paulo Freire's pedagogy of possibility : from blind to transformative optimism / César Augusto Rossatto.

Author

Rossatto, César Augusto, 1961-

Publication

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2005.

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Description

xi, 185 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Engaging Paulo Freires Pedagogy of Possibility is a cross-cultural case study of how people experience schooling in relation to their sense of time and optimism. Cesar Augusto Rossatto examines how real-life situations and social structures influence peoples construction of notions of possibilities. The findings of this study suggest that a curriculum based on Freirean critical pedagogy and time theories can be used to enhance time-consciousness values in contemporary social life.

Subject

• Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997
• Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997
• Freire, Paulo
• Critical pedagogy > Cross-cultural studies
• Critical pedagogy > United States
• Critical pedagogy > Brazil
• Critical pedagogy
• Bewusstseinspädagogik
• Rezeption
• Kulturvergleich
• Volksonderwijs
• Brazil
• United States
• Amerika

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Cross-cultural studies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-175) and index.

Contents

Introduction, a personal perspective -- Seeing fatalism and optimism from a Freirean perspective -- Time consciousness -- Blind optimism -- Fatalistic optimism -- Resilient optimism -- Transformative optimism -- The impact of U.S. standardized testing in the context of the four categories of optimism -- Theoretical implications for children's development, studies on concept of time, the centeredness of school pedagogy, and critical pedagogies -- Policy implications, recommendations, and conclusions.

ISBN

• 0742536963
• 9780742536968
• 0742536971
• 9780742536975

LCCN

2004013735

OCLC

• ocm55657663
• 55657663
• SCSB-8909865

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library