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Pedagogy of Commitment Series in Critical Narrative Donaldo Macedo, Series Editor University of Massachusetts Boston Now in Print The Hegemony of English by Donaldo Macedo, Bessie Dendrinos, and Panayota Gounari (2003) Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda New Updated Edition by Noam Chomsky (2004) Pedagogy of Indignation by Paulo Freire (2004) Howard Zinn on Democratic Education by Howard Zinn, with Donaldo Macedo (2005) How Children Learn: Getting Beyond the Deficit Myth by Terese Fayden (2005) The Globalization of Racism edited by Donaldo Macedo and Panayota Gounari (2006) Daring to Dream: Toward a Pedagogy of the Unfinished by Paulo Freire (2007) Class in Culture by Teresa L. Ebert and Mas’ud Zavarzadeh (2008) Dear Paulo: Letters from Those Who Dare Teach by Sonia Nieto (2008) Uncommon Sense from the Writings of Howard Zinn (2008) Paulo Freire and the Curriculum by Georgios Grollios (2009) Freedom at Work: Language, Professional, and Intellectual Development in Schools by María E. Torres-Guzmán with Ruth Swinney (2009) The Latinization of U.S. Schools: Successful Teaching and Learning in Shifting Cultural Contexts by Jason G. Irizarry (2011) Culture and Power in the Classroom: Educational Foundations for the Schooling of Bicultural Students by Antonia Darder (2011) Changing Lives: Working with Literature in an Alternative Sentencing Program by Taylor Stoehr (2013) Seeds of Freedom: Liberating Education in Guatemala by Clark Taylor (2013) Pedagogy of Commitment by Paulo Freire (2014) Pedagogy of Commitment Paulo Freire Translated by David Brookshaw and Alexandre K. Oliveira Paradigm Publishers Boulder • London All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be transmitted or reproduced in any media or form, including electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or informational storage and retrieval systems, without the express written consent of the publisher. Copyright © 2014 by Paradigm Publishers Published in the United States by Paradigm Publishers, 5589 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO 80303 USA. Paradigm Publishers is the trade name of Birkenkamp & Company, LLC, Dean Birkenkamp, President and Publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Freire, Paulo, 1921–1997, author. Pedagogy of commitment : Paulo Freire. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-59451-972-7 (hc. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-61205-349-3 (lib. ebook) 1. Critical pedagogy. I. Title. LC196.F455 2014 370.115—dc23 2013046451 Printed and bound in the United States of America on acid-free paper that meets the standards of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Designed and Typeset in New Baskerville by Straight Creek Bookmakers. 18 17 16 15 14 1 2 3 4 5 To those dear friends of mine, who came to me from Paulo and who fought so hard, with him and like him, with honor, seriousness, and lovingness, for a true popular education: Jesús Javier, Gómes Alonso–Pato, José Carlos Barreto, and Carlos Nuñez Hurtado. I acknowledge them and miss them. Nita Ana Maria Araújo Freire Contents Foreword by Ana Maria Araújo Freire ix Preface by Pedro Pontual xiii Part I Argentina: Paulo Freire’s Presence at the National University of San Luís Speech: I Feel Happy and Challenged 3 Seminars on Critical Pedagogy 7 Critical Pedagogy Practice 7 Elements of the Educative Situation 14 The Struggle Never Ends, but Is Reinvented: Participants’ Questions and Paulo Freire’s Answers 25 Media Interview: The Confrontation Is Not Pedagogical, but Rather Political 33 Part II Chile Interviews with Boris Bezama 43 Unafraid to Love 43 Educating for Freedom 46 Part III Nicaragua Manifesto: Ten Years of the People’s Sandinista Revolution 53 vii viii ✻ Contents Part IV Paraguay Discussion Seminar with Paulo Freire 59 Popular Education in Latin America: Contextualization and Possibilities within Transition Processes 59 Interview 71 Popular Education in Paraguay: Our Questions to Freire 87 Part V Uruguay Interviews 115 On Education, Politics, and Religion 115 Dialogue on Education, Television, and Social Change 122 Index 135 About the Author 141 Foreword When my great friend Roberto Iglesias–a most dear and admired friend of Paulo’s–proposed to me the organization of a book with the works that marked my husband’s presence in San Luís during the celebrations of his being awarded a doctorate honoris causa degree, as well as in events that fol- lowed those, I responded to him with conviction: yes! Tato Iglesias, as he is known–a man, like Paulo, loving and committed to the exploited and the oppressed–invited, then, his peers from the University of San Luís, in Argentina, where he teaches, to publish the records of that moment together. Thus, the book The Gentle Scream came into being in 2003. The book is small in its size, but dense and serious, as it must be as a work by and around Paulo Freire and organized by the creator of the “Universidad Trashumante,” whose goal is to take the right word, a commitment to social change, and liberating aid, to the oppressed men and women of Argentina. In the past few years, some Brazilian men and women who had been familiar with this work in the Spanish language had begun to ask me, “Why not translate it to Portuguese?” I, then, started to ask myself that same question. I decided, therefore, that it would be important to make known to Brazil- ian readers those texts by Paulo (and only those) contained in The Gentle Scream. If it already was a small book, it became even smaller after the cuts I made. I was, thus, reluctant to do it, but I did because ix