Paulo Freire's Intellectual Roots

Dr. Robert Lake is an Associate Professor at Georgia Southern University, US and teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in multicultural education from both a local and global perspective. Dr. Tricia M. Kress is an Assistant Professor in the Leadership in Urban Schools doctoral program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, US. She received her Ph.D. in Urban Education from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

This set of essays by well-known and influential educationalists is a timely and important contribution to Freire scholarship, and a welcome commentary on the implications of Freire's thinking for the field of critical pedagogy.

• AcknowledgementsPrologue: The Fruit of Freire’s Roots by Henry Giroux Introduction: Pedagogy is Not a Teaching Method by Stanley AronowitzContradiction, Consciousness and Generative Words: Hegel’s Roots in Freire’s Work by Andy BlundenA Dialogue between Marx and Freire by Tricia Kress and Robert LakeThe Gramscian Influence by Peter MayoRethinking Freire’s “Oppressed”: A “Southern” Route to Habermas’s Communicative Turn and Theory of Deliberative Democracy by Raymond Morrow Freire, Buber, and Care Ethics on Dialogue in Teaching by Nel NoddingsConverging Self/ Other Awareness: Erich Fromm and Paulo Freire on Transcending the Fear of Freedom by Robert Lake and Vicki Dagastino Liberation Theology and Paulo Freire: On the Side of the Poor by William ReynoldsLiving within the Tensions Freire's Praxis in a High Stakes World by Melissa Winchell and Tricia KressPaulo Freire's Concept of Conscientização-by Ana CruzRed-ing the Word, Red-ing the World-by Sandy GrandeEpilogue: Freire’s Roots in His Own Words by Paulo Freire