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We make the road by walking : conversations on education and social change
- Title
- We make the road by walking : conversations on education and social change / Myles Horton and Paulo Freire ; edited by Brenda Bell, John Gaventa, and John Peters.
- Author
- Horton, Myles, 1905-1990.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©1990.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | LB885.H64 W4 1990 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxxvii, 256 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This dialogue between two of the most prominent thinkers on social change in the twentieth century was certainly a meeting of giants. Throughout their highly personal conversations recorded here, Horton and Freire discuss the nature of social change and empowerment and their individual literacy campaigns."--Google books viewed Jan. 7, 2021.
- Subject
- Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997
- Horton, Myles, 1905-1990
- Horton, Myles
- Freire, Paulo
- Freire, Paulo, 1921- > Et l'action sociale
- Horton, Myles, 1905- > Et l'action sociale
- Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997
- Horton, Myles, 1905-1990
- Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
- Education > Philosophy
- Social change
- Adult education > Social aspects > United States
- Education > Social aspects > Brazil
- Social Change
- Éducation > Philosophie
- Changement social
- Éducation des adultes > Aspect social > États-Unis
- Education
- Adult education > Social aspects
- Education > Philosophy
- Education > Social aspects
- Social change
- Bildungswesen
- Sozialer Wandel
- Brazil
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: "We make the road by walking" -- Formative years. "I was always getting in trouble for reading in school" ; "Reading has to be a loving event" ; "I couldn't use all this book learning" ; "I always am in the beginning, as you" ; "Pockets of hope" : literacy and citizenship -- Ideas. "Without practice there's no knowledge" ; "Is it possible just to teach biology" ; "I've always been ambivalent about charismatic leaders" ; "The difference between education and organizing" ; "My expertise is in knowing not to be an expert" ; "My respect for the soul of the culture" ; "I learned a lot from being a father" -- Educational practice. "The more the people become themselves, the better the democracy" ; "Highlander is a weaving of many colors" ; "Conflicts are the midwife of consciousness " -- Education and social change. "You have to bootleg education" ; "The people begin to get their history into their hands, and then the role of education changes" -- Reflections. "Peaks and valleys and hills and hollers" ; "It's necessary to laugh with the people" -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0877227713
- 9780877227717
- 0877227756
- 9780877227755
- LCCN
- 90036005
- OCLC
- ocm21483166
- 21483166
- SCSB-8899776
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library