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When Alex Downie invited me to contribute a retrospective piece on Paulo Freire for this edition of The Scottish Journal of Community Work and Development, I was glad of the opportunity to reflect again on the significance of Freire’s life and work. The immediate context is, of course, his death on 2 May 1997, at the age of 75. He is no longer with us in the flesh, and in that sense his work is completed. I can think of people who will be glad he is gone, and others for whom his departure, like his earlier presence, will be a matter of indifference. A prominent British professor of education once asked me why we should pay attention to a Latin American theorist. I was so astonished that I was unable to formulate a reply.
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Kirkwood, C. (2012). Challenging Education, Creating Alliances. In: Kirkwood, C. (eds) The Persons in Relation Perspective. International Issues in Adult Education, vol 9. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-909-1_11
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