Authors: Peter Mayo, Griff Foley (Editor), Budd Hall (Editor), Carol Medel-Anonuevo
ISBN-13: 9781856496148, ISBN-10: 1856496147
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Zed Books
Date Published: July 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Peter Mayo is Lecturer in the Department of Foundations in Education, University of Malta.
This book focuses on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education, Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and Paulo Freire (1921-1997). Both regarded forms of adult education as having an important role to play in the struggle for liberation from oppression. Peter Mayo examines the extent to which their combined insights can provide the foundation for a theory of transformative adult education. He considers their respective contributions to the development of such a theory, analyzes their ideas comparatively and identifies some of the limitations in their work for incorporation into a theory. The book concludes with a major synthesis of their ideas in the context of other adult educators' more recent contributions in order to develop a theory of transformative adult education.
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Antonio Gramsci and Adult Education | 35 |
3 | Paulo Freire and Adult Education | 58 |
4 | Gramsci and Freire: A Comparative Analysis | 78 |
5 | Some of the Limitations in Gramsci and Freire for a Contemporary Project | 107 |
6 | A Gramscian-Freirean Synthesis and Beyond | 126 |
7 | Conclusion: When Might it Work? Transformative Adult Education in Context | 155 |
Bibliography | 186 | |
Index | 206 |