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The journey started when I was “initiated” into critical pedagogy through Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire’s major work (Freire, 1970). This initiation happened in Manaus, in the heart of Amazonia, during a high school sociology class where the teacher assigned this work as required reading. Reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with me immediately and laid a foundation for which I returned when I attended university as a graduate student in the field of education.
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Key Works by Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York, NY: Continuum.
(1974). Education for critical consciousness. New York, NY: Continuum.
(1994). Pedagogy of hope: Reliving pedagogy of the oppressed. New York, NY: Continuum.
(1998). Pedagogy of freedom: Ethics, democracy and civic courage. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
(1998). Teachers as cultural workers: Letters to those who dare teach. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
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(1980). Conscientização: Teoria e práctica da libertação: Uma introdução ao pensamento de Paulo Freire. São Paulo, SP: Moraes.
(1985). Essa escola chamada vida. São Paulo, SP: Ática. [co-authored with Betto, F.]
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Cruz, A.L. (2015). From Practice to Theory & from Theory to Praxis. In: Porfilio, B.J., Ford, D.R. (eds) Leaders in Critical Pedagogy. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-166-3_13
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