Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate: The Return of Freirean Thinking

Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate provides an urgent reflection on Freire's work, in particular his central principles of pedagogy and praxis, offering a variety of critical responses from philosophical, sociological and egalitarian perspectives. The editors explore whether Freire's revolutionary work has stood the test of time and it's relevance to educational discourses today - discourses that frequently contest the ontological and historical aspects of human developmentWhile Freire's work emerged as a response to the problem of providing a transformative educational praxis for justice and equality within a specific cultural and economic milieu, Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate seeks to explore the value and possibilities of transformative praxis in perpetually diverse educational settings and within an increasingly divided globalised world. By building on the earlier emancipatory approach ofFreire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, it creates an international conversation between academics, educational practitioners and community activists for a new generation.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements \ Introduction Andrew O'Shea and Maeve O'Brien \ 1. Towards a Pedagogy of Care and Well-Being: Restoring the Vocation of Becoming Human through Dialogue and Relationality Maeve O'Brien \ 2. Paulo Freire and the Tasks of the Critical Educational Scholar/Activist Michael W. Apple \ 3. Resistance, Struggle and Survival: The University as a Site for Transformative Education Mags Crean and Kathleen Lynch \ 4. Liberal Education, Reading the Word, and Naming the World D. G. Mulcahy \ 5. Conscientization: The Art of Learning Anne Ryan \ 6. Taking Educational Risks With and Without Guaranteed Identities: Freire's ‘Problem-Posing' and Judith Butler's ‘Troubling' Karl Kitching \ 7. A Post-Modernist Rendering of Freire's Educational Vision? Some Reflections on the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Jones Irwin \ 8. Rethinking Transformation in Light of Post-Modern Education: 'Freire is Dead, Long Live Freire!' Andrew O'Shea \ Bibliography \ Index

About the Author :
Andrew O'Shea is Lecturer in Philosophy of Education and Human Development at St. Patrick's College, Dublin City University, Ireland. Maeve O'Brien is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Co-ordinator of Human Development at St Patrick's College, Dublin City University, Ireland.

Review :
‘This book provides a thoughtful reassessment of the work of Paulo Freire against the background of recent developments in the theory and practice of education. It provides a powerful reminder of the need to bring the personal back into the political project that education ultimately is.' Gert Biesta, Professor of Education, University of Stirling, UK ‘This important and compelling book is an important challenge to the new framing of education in a post critical climate. It addresses the question of educational transformation by exploring the potential in Freire's work for liberation through radical pedagogy and praxis that takes relationality and the affective domain of life seriously.' Diane Reay, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, UK 'This text is timely, prescient, passionate and purposeful, bringing together a set of powerful voices, perspectives and dispositions that breathe new possibilities into pedagogies more likely to liberate and transform than oppress and marginalise...an important contribution to contemporary educational discourses that is at once deeply humanising, enriching and rewarding. Read it, and be inspired to continue Freire's transformative agenda.' Ciaran Sugrue, Professor of Education, University College Dublin, Ireland