Book, Pedagogy of solidarity[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. A collection of texts and lectures by Paulo Freire, Bob Koob, Walter Ferreira de Oliveira, Ana Maria Araújo Freire, with a preface by Henry A. Giroux and an afterword by Donaldo Macedo. Pedagogy of solidarity deals with themes addressed by Paulo Freire during his time at the University of Northern Iowa, in the United States, at the event “Education and Social Justice: a dialogue with Paulo Freire”. Here, the authors, Ana Maria Araújo Freire and Walter Ferreira Oliveira, following the thought of the Patron of Brazilian Education, leave us with no doubt that without a critical pedagogy, aimed at improving, in each of us, the virtue of solidarity, You cannot build a more beautiful and truly democratic world. * In 1963, in Angicos, in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, three hundred rural workers were taught literacy in just 40 hours, using the method proposed by Paulo Freire. This was the result of the pilot project of what would become the National Literacy Program of the government of João Goulart, president who would be deposed in March 1964. In October of that same year, Freire left Brazil to protect his own life. He only visited the country again in 1979, with the democratic opening. Throughout his history, Paulo Freire received more than one hundred honorary doctorates from several national and foreign universities, in addition to numerous awards, such as Education for Peace, from UNESCO, and the Order of Cultural Merit, from the Brazilian government. Member of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame and the Reading Hall of Fame. * “My dream is of a less ugly society, a society in which we can laugh without falsehood. In which knowledge is not a problem of vision, in which there is no discrimination based on language, race or sex. I'm not thinking about a society of angels, because angels don't make politics, but about a society of human beings. We have to have solidarity among those who have the same dreams. This solidarity implies hope, and without hope and solidarity it is impossible to fight.”