Daring to Dream

Paulo Freire, Ana Maria Araújo Freire, Alexandre K. Oliveira

“Critical theory in education has too often lapsed into an intellectual posturing detached from real possibilities for transformation and thus failed to challenge neoliberal fatalism about how things ‘are’ or ‘need to be.’ Ever persuasive and impressive, Freire takes up the challenge and in the act shows us not just the possibility but the reality of a ‘pedagogy of hope.’” —Jim Gee, Arizona State University

• Part I Commentaries and Essays; Chapter 1 Impossible to Exist Without Dreams; Chapter 2 On the Cognitional Act; Chapter 3 History as Possibility; Chapter 4 A Few Reflections Around Utopia; Part II Dialogues and Conferences; Chapter 5 A Conversation With Students; Chapter 6 Human Rights and Liberating Education; Chapter 7 Changing is Difficult, But Possible; Chapter 8 Dialogue With the Participants: The Reading and Writing Issue;