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BOOK PICK: Teachers As Cultural Workers- Letters to Those Who Dare Teach

By Paulo Freire In Teachers as Cultural Workers, Freire speaks directly to teachers about the lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist. Freire’s words challenge all who teach to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning. He shows why a [...]

BOOK PICK: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

By Paulo Freire With an new introduction to Freire’s life and the impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers.

BOOK PICK: Democracy Matters

By Cornell West Praised by the New York Times for his “ferocious moral vision,” Cornel West returns to the analysis of what he calls the arrested development of democracy with a masterful diagnosis. Pointing to the rise of three antidemocratic dogmas that are rendering the energy of American democracy impotent–a callous free-market fundamentalism, an aggressive [...]