�[This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as eductors at all levels of learning.��Contemporary Sociology





�Every chapter . . . asks teachers to think again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils and how to get on with it.��The Times Educational Supplement





�Freire and Macedo's work cannot be ignored by the student of educational change in contemporary society. It should be consulted by anyone who believes in using education as a vehicle of social change.��Small Press Book Review





�Freire's provocative explanation of [literacy] could lead to a constructive `dialectical debate' in the United States.��The Los Angeles Times





�At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purposes of prying open the `closed minds' of American youth. . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response.��Harvard Educational Review --This text refers to the Book - Hardcover edition.


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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.