Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education

By - Mayo, Peter

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, London, New York, 1999

ISBN 10 - 1856496147

ISBN 13 - 9781856496148

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Adult education Philosophy

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 374.001 MAY

Physical Description - 211 pages ; 23 cm.

Notes - Includes Index

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This book focuses on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education, Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and Paulo Freire (1921-1997). Both regarded forms of adult education as having an important role to play in the struggle for liberation from oppression. Peter Mayo examines the extent to which their combined insights can provide the foundation for a theory of transformative adult education. He considers their respective contributions to the development of such a theory, analyzes their ideas comparatively and identifies some of the limitations in their work for incorporation into a theory. The book concludes with a major synthesis of their ideas in the context of other adult educators' more recent contributions in order to develop a theory of transformative adult education.

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