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Che Guevara, Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolutionreviewed by Phil Francis Carspecken - 2002 Title: Che Guevara, Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolution Author(s): Peter McLaren Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham ISBN: 0847695336, Pages: 264, Year: 2000 Search for book at Amazon.com Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution
is far too rich a book for a short review to do it much justice. It
is absolutely full of McLaren-style insights (e.g., the "convenient
alliance between the new fast capitalism and conventional cognitive
science" p. 86), new theory (e.g., an extremely interesting section
on paranoic world-self constitution in capitalist social
formations), artistic uses of language (e.g., "The commercialized
Che, however, is where the numinous and numismatic meet." p. 11),
facts (e.g., the gap between rich and poor in Latin America is now
150 to 1; it was 60 to 1 when Che Guevara died) and many
aesthetic-inspirational formulations: "Che’s spirit lives and
beckons us to still the swirl of confusion that envelopes us and to
steady our gaze toward the future." (p. 13). The book calls to the
heart and mind simultaneously. In this review I will focus on the
call this book registers on the hearts of readers and the hope it
offers to... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Phil Carspecken
University of Houston E-mail Author Phil Francis Carspecken is professor of Inquiry and Philosophy at Indiana University's School of Education. He teaches and conducts scholary work in the fields of critical qualitative research methodology, social theory, social philosophy and philosophical issues in inquiry.
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