Böcker av Donaldo Macedo

At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the `closed minds' of American youth . Harvard Educational Review Every chapter .

Million-seller Paulo Freire urges students, parents and teachers to discover new horizons of hope and possibility for a better world.

Surveying the latest research, this passionate book shows the many benefits of bilingual education.

Addresses ethinic cleansing, human sufferings, terrorism, immigration and xenophobia, and recent racial developments in Europe, Isreal and the US.

These essays by educators provide a portrait of ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change. The authors take into account feminism, ecology, and media in their pursuit of ideas that can inform the fundamental practice of education.

They also examine why it is essential to take on the sources of 'mass public education.' Academia needs to understand that the popular press and mass media educate more people about issues regarding ethnicity and race than all other sources of education available to U.S. citizens.

Freire and Macedo analyse the connection between literacy and politics according to whether it produces existing social relations, or introduces a new set of cultural practices that promote democratic and emancipatory change.

This book illustrates the many ways American schools, media, and other social institutions perpetuate ignorance. It signifies why so-called common culture literacy is a form of dominant cultural reproduction that undermines independent thought and goes against the best interests of our students.