Paulo Freire??Intellectual Roots—Toward Historicity in Praxis

Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy has had a profound influence on contemporary progressive educators around the globe as they endeavor to rethink education for liberation and the creation of more humane global society. For Freire, maintaining a sense of historicity, that is, the origins from which our thinking and practice emerges, is essential to understanding and practicing education as a means for liberation. Too often, however, critical pedagogy is presented as a monolithic philosophy, and the historical and intellectual roots of critical pedagogy are submerged. Through a compilation of essays written by leading and emerging scholars of critical pedagogy, this text brings history into the present and keeps Paulo's intellectual roots alive in all of us as we develop our praxis today.

Dr. Robert Lake is an Associate Professor at Georgia Southern University, US and teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in multicultural education from both a local and global perspective.

Dr. Tricia M. Kress is an Assistant Professor in the Leadership in Urban Schools doctoral program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, US. She received her Ph.D. in Urban Education from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.