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“Because my practice has always been a dialectical, real and concrete practice, there was a possibility to overcome the naive moments.”
(Paulo Freire, Education and the brazilian present)
The Loyola publisher recently reissued “Paulo Freire” series and released the book Dialogue and educational praxis - A critical reading of Paulo Freire. The publication with studies about Paulo Freire, by the author Carlos Alberto Torres, was first released in Brazil in 1979 and was divided into three books: Conscience and History – The educational praxis of Paulo Freire; Dialogue with Paulo Freire, and Critical Reading of Paulo Freire.
Now, to commemorate 50 years of Angicos (RN), the company publishes this work, which is still current and allows contact with the main Freirian categories. The book also brings texts prefaced by renowned people as the director of the Paulo Freire Institute, Moacir Gadotti, the congresswoman Luiza Erundina and the great philosopher and educator Mario Sergio Cortella.
The author Carlos Alberto Torres, one of the founders of the Paulo Freire Institute, this work recalls moments of 1963 when a possible dream was born: to build a nation based on emancipatory education. It also reveals a literacy project designed to be a national project. That dream was interrupted in 1964 by military coup.
“I believe that the publication of this work by Loyola comes at a good time of resumption of Paulo Freire’s ideas in Brazil, in the moment that he was ‘pardoned’ (2009) and declared ‘patron of Brazilian education’ (2012). It is an opportune time to resume his originating ideas and make them ethos of Brazilian education”, wrote Moacir Gadotti in the preface of this book.”