Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education: Possibilities for Transformative Action

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Palgrave Macmillan, 1999 - Broj stranica: 211

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 pedagogical process in particular -- social relations, sites of practice and the content of adult education. He analyses their ideas and identifies some of the limitations in their work, notably the critical issues of gender and race which they do not address.

The book concludes with a seminal attempt at synthesising their ideas in the context of other adult educators' more recent contributions in order to develop a theory of transformative adult education, including an assessment of its feasibility in the era of globalization and neoliberalism.

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Introduction
1
Antonio Gramsci and Adult Education
35
Paulo Freire and Adult Education
58
A Comparative Analysis
78
58
105
Some of the Limitations in Gramsci and Freire
107
A GramscianFreirean Synthesis and Beyond
126
When Might it Work?
155
Cultural Revolution
167
Some Concluding Remarks
174
Bibliography
186
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O autoru (1999)

Peter Mayo is a Professor in the Department of Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education, University of Malta, Malta. He is the co-editor of the series Postcolonial Studies in Education (Palgrave). PETER MAYO is Associate Professor, Education, University of Malta. He is co-editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Education and the author of several books and articles concerning the work of Paulo Freire, Antonio Gramsci, and other works on adult education.

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