Scholar, activist, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate the relationships between education, politics, imperialism, and liberation. This volume is a testament to the works of Paulo Freire in the field of Education as well as the life of the man: a "e;story of courage, hardship, perseverance, and unyielding belief in the power of love."e; In this comprehensive collection, prominent intellectuals including Noam Chomsky and Donald Macedo reflect on Freire's "e;politics of liberation"e; and add important new dimensions to the revolutionary, innovative ideas that Freire bequeathed to a generation much in need.

A Pedagogy of Transformation: An Introduction, About the Contributors, Chapter 1: Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility, Chapter 2: Studying the Media: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream, Chapter 3: Scientism as a Form of Racism, Chapter 4: Liberating the Critical in Critical Theory: Marcuse, Marx, and a Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Alienation, Art, and the Humanities, Chapter 5: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Nationalism in the Global Age, Chapter 6: On "Having Differences" and "Being Different": From a Dialogue of Difference to the Private Language of Indifference, Chapter 7: Politics of Explanation: Ethical Questions in the Production of Knowledge, Chapter 8: Upstream in the Mainstream: Pedagogy Against the Current, Chapter 9: The Prairie Is Wide: Conrack Comes to "The Rez", Chapter 10: Teaching in Our Underwear: The Liabilities of Whiteness in the Multiracial Classroom, Chapter 11: Authority Is Not a Luxury: "Courageous Diaologue" in the Feminist Classroom, Chapter 12: Authentic Multiculturalism and Nontraditional Students: Voices from the "Contact Zone", Chapter 13: The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action: The Ideologies of Gender and Peer Response Sessions Perceived by a Teacher-Researcher, Chapter 14: Cultural Studies (Alone) Won't Do It: Strategic Reform of Academic Departments in the University, Chapter 15: Synthesizing Gramsci and Freire: Possibilities for a Theory of Transformative Adult Education