Italy Meets Freire: The Rationale for a Promising Encounter in the Critical 1970s

Wheter the seminal thinking and practice of Paulo Freire in contemporary times? If Covid 19 is the most seismic health crisis in living memory, iit is also just as much an unprecedent crisis for education and society. While Paulo Freire's works so often calls attention to the deprivations and exploitations suffered by the weakest in our society, at no stage does Freire's work succumb to a negativism or a pessimism about the possibilities of transformation. To the contrary, Freire's work is always animated by a strong and fundamental affirmative spirit which calls on people to join together to make change, as opposed to simply waiting around for it happen.

Il volume sviluppa considerazioni a largo raggio sulla vitalità del pensiero e dell'opera di Paulo Freire nel contesto attuale della pedagogia, offrendo una prospettiva di analisi strutturata dentro una visione aperta, che dalla specificità dello scenario italiano si apre al mondo.