`What is always so enjoyable in Friere's writing is that he is his own model. The mixture of pulsating action and quiet intellectual reflection in these pages is exactly his view of reading...Every chapter in these 180 pages asks teachers to think again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils and how to get on with it'. - Norman Evans, TES

• Introduction Literacy and the Pedagogy of Political Empowerment, Henry A.Giroux; Chapter 1 The Importance of the Act of Reading; Chapter 2 Adult Literacy and Popular Libraries; Chapter 3 Rethinking Literacy: A Dialogue; Chapter 4 The People Speak Their Word: Literacy in Action; Chapter 5 Literacy in Guinea-Bissau Revisited; Chapter 6 The Illiteracy of Literacy in the United States; Chapter 7 Literacy and Critical Pedagogy;