Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility: From Blind to Transformative Optimism

Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility is a cross-cultural case study of how people experience schooling in relation to their sense of time and optimism. César Augusto Rossatto examines how real-life situations and social structures influence people's construction of notions of possibilities. Positionality, or perceptions about life and projections of the future, has great impact on students' success in school. These perceptions-how they interpret the past, live in the present, and foresee the future-are, in turn, greatly influenced by their intellectual locality. By the same token, how educators see their position in the world and their classroom 'roles' determines their operandum beliefs. The findings of this study suggest that a curriculum based on Freirean critical pedagogy and time theories can be used to enhance time-consciousness values in contemporary social life.

Author: Rossatto César Augusto
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 11/20/2004
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780742536975
ISBN10: 0742536971
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

About the Author
César Augusto Rossatto teaches in the College of Education at the University of Texas, El Paso.