Freire for the Classroom

by Shor, Ira

• ISBN13: 9780867091977
• ISBN10: 0867091975
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-09-22
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

This collection of essays organized by Ira Shor is a testimony tocreativity in the classroom. It deserves careful reading and study. - Paulo Freire, from the AfterwordFreire for the Classroom is an anthology of essays by teachers using Paulo Freire's methods in their classrooms. These essays, collected from professional journals, represent some of the best experimental teaching done to adapt Freire's liberatory pedagogy to North American classrooms. The articles show the creative enthusiasm many teachers gain from Freire's ideas, as well as the critical literacy and political awareness students gain through this approach. The book offers critical theory side by side with actual reports of teaching practice, so that philosophy is brought down to earth in terms familiar to practicing teachers.Included in the volume is a "Letter to North American Teachers" written by Paulo Freire expressly for this book, along with an essay by Cynthia Brown discussing the original methods used by Freire.

Author Biography

IRA SHOR has a dual appointment as Professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate School and at the College of Staten Island. He worked with Paulo Freire for a number of years and coauthored with Freire, A Pedagogy for Liberation.

Table of Contents

Preface
Editor's Introduction: Using Freire's Ideas in the Classroom---How Do We Practice Liberatory Teaching?	1	(6)
Ira Shor
Educating the Educators: A Freirean Approach to the Crisis in Teacher Education	7	(26)
Ira Shor
Problem-Posing Education: Freire's Method for Transformation	33	(12)
Nina Wallerstein
An Interactionist Approach to Advancing Literacy	45	(18)
Nan Elsasser
Vera John-Steiner
Illiteracy and Alienation in American Colleges: Is Paulo Freire's Pedagogy Relevant?	63	(24)
Linda Shaw Finlay
Valerie Faith
``Strangers No More'': A Liberatory Literacy Curriculum	87	(17)
Kyle Fiore
Nan Elasser
Monday Morning Fever: Critical Literacy and the Generative Theme of ``Work''	104	(18)
Ira Shor
More Than the Basics: Teaching Critical Reading in High School	122	(7)
Nancy Zimmet
English and Creole: The Dialectics of Choice in a College Writing Program	129	(21)
Nan Elsasser
Patricia Irvine
The Hidden Curriculum of Survival ESL	150	(20)
Elsa Roberts Auerbach
Denise Burgess
Feminist Values: Guidelines for Teaching Methodology in Women's Studies	170	(10)
Nancy Schniedewind
Critical Mathematics Education: An Application of Paulo Freire's Epistemology	180	(31)
Marilyn Frankenstein
Appendix: Classroom Examples from a Math Course	204	(7)
Letter to North-American Teachers	211	(21)
Paulo Freire
Carman Hunter
Appendix: Literacy in 30 Hours: Paulo Freire's Process in Northeast Brazil	215	(17)
Cynthia Brown
Selected Bibliography	232	(3)
Notes on Contributors	235