This book consists of a collection of original essays on the work of Paulo Freire, based on diverse experiences of First and Third world contexts. All of authors argue that Paulo Freire is the cornerstone upon which a new vision and strategies of liberation can be built. The book offers a broad interpretive base addressing Marxist and post-socialist, modern and post-modern, hermeneutical, feminist and post-colonial perspectives.

Introduction 1 Freire and a feminist pedagogy of difference 2 Critical thought and moral imagination: peace education in Freirean perspective 3 Conscientization and political literacy: a British encounter with Paulo Freire 4 Toward liberatory mathematics: Paulo Freire's epistemology and ethnomathematics 5 Twenty years after Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Paulo Freire in conversation with Carlos Alberto Torres 6 Conscientization and social movements in Canada: the relevance of Paulo Freire's ideas in contemporary politics 7 Freire-present and future possibilities 8 Critical literacy, feminism, and a politics of representation 9 Politics, praxis and the personal: an Argentine assessment 10 Education and hermeneutics: a Freirean interpretation 11 Postmodernism and the death of politics: a Brazilian reprieve; Afterword

Peter L. McLaren is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of California at Los Angeles. Colin Lankshear is Associate Professor in the School of Language and Literacy Education, and Director of Literacy Studies Education, Queensland University of Technology.