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Gramsci, Freire, and adult education : possibilities for transformative action

Peter Mayo
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, London, New York, 1999
211 pages ; 23 cm.
9781856496131, 9781856496148, 1856496139, 1856496147
39532731
1. Introduction2. Antonio Gramsci and Adult Education3. Paulo Freire and Adult Education4. A Comparative Analysis of Gramsci and Freire with Respect to Adult Education5. Some of the Limitations in Gramsci and Freire for a Contemporary Project6. A Gramscian Freirian Synthesis and Beyond7. Conclusion