Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the
same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are …

Chapter 4 is a revised version of a chapter which first appeared as Mayo, P.(2008),'Reading
and Transforming the World Together. A Freirean Perspective on Education and Social …

This paper analyses the relevance of Paulo Freire's pedagogical and philosophical ideas
within the context of occupied Palestine. It specifically focuses on the work in continuing …

The concept of cultural hegemony is much broader than that of ideology, because it refers to
the construction process of the collective experience, of the modelling of meanings, from the …

This paper provides a critical view of the dominant discourse in education centering
on'competences' and the type of slant this discourse takes. It also suggest an alternative …

In this reflective account, I provide an overview of some of the main currents, particularly in
sociological research, and specifically sociology of education research, to which I have been …

This thesis argues that it is both necessary and possible to change the world. Changing the
world requires engaging with, to try to understand it from the basis of lived reality, and then …

Re-working the Gramscian idea of the 'organic'intellectual from the cultural-political sphere
to Higher Education (HE), suggests the need to develop critical and questioning 'counter …

This paper provides a critical exposition and analysis of the work of an acclaimed Italian
educator, Lorenzo Milani, and ideas that emerged from his experiences in two Tuscan …

This paper provides a critical analysis of Freire's Italian reception and argues that
reinventing Freire requires us to historicise and to contextualise his legacy, which in Italy …