Table Of ContentPedagogy of Commitment
Series in Critical Narrative
Donaldo Macedo, Series Editor
University of Massachusetts Boston
Now in Print
The Hegemony of English
by Donaldo Macedo, Bessie Dendrinos, and Panayota Gounari (2003)
Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda
New Updated Edition
by Noam Chomsky (2004)
Pedagogy of Indignation
by Paulo Freire (2004)
Howard Zinn on Democratic Education
by Howard Zinn, with Donaldo Macedo (2005)
How Children Learn: Getting Beyond the Deficit Myth
by Terese Fayden (2005)
The Globalization of Racism
edited by Donaldo Macedo and Panayota Gounari (2006)
Daring to Dream: Toward a Pedagogy of the Unfinished
by Paulo Freire (2007)
Class in Culture
by Teresa L. Ebert and Mas’ud Zavarzadeh (2008)
Dear Paulo: Letters from Those Who Dare Teach
by Sonia Nieto (2008)
Uncommon Sense from the Writings of Howard Zinn (2008)
Paulo Freire and the Curriculum
by Georgios Grollios (2009)
Freedom at Work: Language, Professional, and Intellectual Development in
Schools
by María E. Torres-Guzmán with Ruth Swinney (2009)
The Latinization of U.S. Schools: Successful Teaching and Learning in Shifting
Cultural Contexts
by Jason G. Irizarry (2011)
Culture and Power in the Classroom: Educational Foundations for the Schooling
of Bicultural Students
by Antonia Darder (2011)
Changing Lives: Working with Literature in an Alternative Sentencing Program
by Taylor Stoehr (2013)
Seeds of Freedom: Liberating Education in Guatemala
by Clark Taylor (2013)
Pedagogy of Commitment
by Paulo Freire (2014)
Pedagogy of
Commitment
Paulo Freire
Translated by
David Brookshaw
and
Alexandre K. Oliveira
Paradigm Publishers
Boulder • London
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Copyright © 2014 by Paradigm Publishers
Published in the United States by Paradigm Publishers, 5589 Arapahoe
Avenue, Boulder, CO 80303 USA.
Paradigm Publishers is the trade name of Birkenkamp & Company, LLC,
Dean Birkenkamp, President and Publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Freire, Paulo, 1921–1997, author.
Pedagogy of commitment : Paulo Freire.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-59451-972-7 (hc. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-61205-349-3 (lib. ebook)
1. Critical pedagogy. I. Title.
LC196.F455 2014
370.115—dc23
2013046451
Printed and bound in the United States of America on acid-free paper that
meets the standards of the American National Standard for Permanence of
Paper for Printed Library Materials.
Designed and Typeset in New Baskerville by Straight Creek Bookmakers.
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To those dear friends of mine, who came to me from Paulo
and who fought so hard, with him and like him, with honor,
seriousness, and lovingness, for a true popular education:
Jesús Javier, Gómes Alonso–Pato, José Carlos Barreto, and
Carlos Nuñez Hurtado. I acknowledge them and miss them.
Nita
Ana Maria Araújo Freire
Contents
Foreword by Ana Maria Araújo Freire ix
Preface by Pedro Pontual xiii
Part I Argentina: Paulo Freire’s Presence at
the National University of San Luís
Speech: I Feel Happy and Challenged 3
Seminars on Critical Pedagogy 7
Critical Pedagogy Practice 7
Elements of the Educative Situation 14
The Struggle Never Ends, but Is Reinvented:
Participants’ Questions and Paulo
Freire’s Answers 25
Media Interview: The Confrontation
Is Not Pedagogical, but Rather Political 33
Part II Chile
Interviews with Boris Bezama 43
Unafraid to Love 43
Educating for Freedom 46
Part III Nicaragua
Manifesto: Ten Years of the People’s
Sandinista Revolution 53
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Part IV Paraguay
Discussion Seminar with Paulo Freire 59
Popular Education in Latin America:
Contextualization and Possibilities
within Transition Processes 59
Interview 71
Popular Education in Paraguay:
Our Questions to Freire 87
Part V Uruguay
Interviews 115
On Education, Politics, and Religion 115
Dialogue on Education, Television, and
Social Change 122
Index 135
About the Author 141
Foreword
When my great friend Roberto Iglesias–a most dear and
admired friend of Paulo’s–proposed to me the organization
of a book with the works that marked my husband’s presence
in San Luís during the celebrations of his being awarded a
doctorate honoris causa degree, as well as in events that fol-
lowed those, I responded to him with conviction: yes!
Tato Iglesias, as he is known–a man, like Paulo, loving and
committed to the exploited and the oppressed–invited, then,
his peers from the University of San Luís, in Argentina, where
he teaches, to publish the records of that moment together.
Thus, the book The Gentle Scream came into being in 2003.
The book is small in its size, but dense and serious, as it
must be as a work by and around Paulo Freire and organized
by the creator of the “Universidad Trashumante,” whose goal
is to take the right word, a commitment to social change, and
liberating aid, to the oppressed men and women of Argentina.
In the past few years, some Brazilian men and women who
had been familiar with this work in the Spanish language
had begun to ask me, “Why not translate it to Portuguese?”
I, then, started to ask myself that same question. I decided,
therefore, that it would be important to make known to Brazil-
ian readers those texts by Paulo (and only those) contained
in The Gentle Scream.
If it already was a small book, it became even smaller after
the cuts I made. I was, thus, reluctant to do it, but I did because
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