Paulo Freire Encyclopedia

Danilo R. Streck is professor at the Graduate School of Education at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), in the Porto Alegre metropolitan area, Brazil. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Siegen (Germany), University of Toronto (Canada), and Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), and visiting scholar at the Latin American Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Euclides Redin is professor emeritus from the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos. Jaime José Zitkoski professor at the Graduate School of Education at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, where his research is focused on social movements, work and education.

Paulo Freire was paramount seminal thinker, philosopher, pedagogue, and theologian, a canonic practitioner of the art of education, for whom the word that spells the truth is ‘pregnant with the world.’ Nothing would have pleased him (and the privileged readers of this volume) more than an encyclopedia containing those words in labor. This ‘dictionary,’ as it is called in the original Portuguese edition, is nothing short of an authoritative inventory of pedagogical building blocks. The editors and over a hundred international scholars collected and explained them offering the bricks through which other scholars and educators will ‘reinvent,’ construct (not simply to repeat Freire, as he would insist) to give birth to another world that is possible.

• Preface to the English Edition Fifty Years after Angicos: Paulo Freire, Popular Education, and the Struggle for a Better World That Is Possible, by Carlos Alberto TorresPrefaceEntries Authors Paulo Freire: A Brief Intellectual Map 1Words and Concepts Paulo Freire Bibliography, by Ana Maria de Araújo FriereIndex About the Editors