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Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility
From Blind to Transformative Optimism
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2004
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Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility is a cross-cultural case study of how people experience schooling in relation to their sense of time and optimism. César Augusto Rossatto examines how real-life situations and social structures influence people's construction of notions of possibilities. Positionality, or perceptions about life and projections of the future, has great impact on students' success in school. These perceptions-how they interpret the past, live in the present, and foresee the future-are, in turn, greatly influenced by their intellectual locality. By the same token, how educators see their position in the world and their classroom 'roles' determines their operandum beliefs. The findings of this study suggest that a curriculum based on Freirean critical pedagogy and time theories can be used to enhance time-consciousness values in contemporary social life.
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Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-3697-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7836-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
188
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Contents No access
Foreword by Ana Maria Araujo Freire No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: A Personal Perspective No access Pages 1 - 10
1 Seeing Fatalism and Optimism from a Freirean Perspective No access Pages 11 - 22
2 Time Cosciousness No access Pages 23 - 48
3 Blind Optimism No access Pages 49 - 56
4 Fatalistic Optimism No access Pages 57 - 68
5 Resilient Optimism No access Pages 69 - 80
6 Transformative Optimism No access Pages 81 - 88
7 The Impact of U.S. Standardized Testing in the Context of the Four Categories of Optimism No access Pages 89 - 98
8 Theoretical Implications for Children's Development, Studies on the Concept of Time, the Centeredness of School Pedagogy, and Critical Pedagogies No access Pages 99 - 140
9 Policy Implications, Recommendations, and Conclusions No access Pages 141 - 164
