Carlos Alberto Torres, Maria del Pilar O’Cadiz & Pia Lindquist Wong

Authors, Editors

Maio, 2002

Year of edition

972-8296-71-1

ISBN

Synopsis – [Education and Democracy: Paulo Freire, Social Movements, and Educational Reform].

How to change public education in a large city like São Paulo, where all the old and new problems of building a school for everyone in highly stratified and unequal societies converge? The book now published in Portuguese analyzes Paulo Freire's political action as head of the Municipal Department of Education (1989-1991), focusing on the attempt to build an interdisciplinary curriculum based on Freire's principle of the "generative theme." The analysis by the authors, conducted in a simultaneous register of proximity to the object of study and rigor of the theoretical and methodological apparatus mobilized, allows for a very current approach to issues such as the articulation between interests and knowledge, between pleasure and effort, central in all debates about learning in the school space, progressively open to all social and cultural groups.