Hope, he says, is an ontological need, an existential concrete imperative, which demands an anchoring in practice.Freire’s writing is an experiment in bringing out truth.In these opening words Freire introduces the idea of a pedagogy of hope and why it is important Rather, in this book Freire reflects on his original ideas, attempts to answer his critics, clarify his thinking, and share his experience of working with oppressed groups across the world in the intervening 25 years. Pedagogy of Hope, offers little that is new, other than that hope is essential to a pedagogy of the oppressed. He was considered a subversive by the Brazilian government of the time, and his legacy remains a contentious issue in Brazil today ( Why is the Brazilian Right Afraid of Paulo Freire?) At the time of writing Freire was living in exile in Chile, hence writing in Spanish. In this book published in English in 1994 (originally in Portuguese in 1992), Freire revisits the ideas he first published in his radical text Pedagogy of the Oppressed in 1968, which was translated from Spanish to English in 1970.
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