Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education: Possibilities for Transformative Action

by Peter Mayo

Book Overview

This book focuses on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education - Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire. Both regarded forms of adult education as having an important role to play in the struggle for liberation from oppression. In this book Peter Mayo examines the extent to which their combined insights can provide the foundation for a theory for our own times of transformative adult education. He focuses on three aspects of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856496147
• ISBN13: 9781856496148
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.6" x 8.5"

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